Hassan Bashir; Amir Reza Tamaddon; Amin Mirshekari Soleimani
Abstract
With the increasing use of new communication technologies, public opinion management tools have also undergone fundamental changes; both in terms of method and theoretical foundations, there have been developments in the field of public opinion management that double the need to review and develop the ...
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With the increasing use of new communication technologies, public opinion management tools have also undergone fundamental changes; both in terms of method and theoretical foundations, there have been developments in the field of public opinion management that double the need to review and develop the theoretical literature of the past. What is now being referred to as a new way of managing public opinion in recent years, and especially after the 2016 US election, is the issue of "social manipulation". The authors believe that Iran is one of the countries that is exposed to hostile social manipulation by regional and supra-regional powers due to its special communication position. To this end, with the framework of hostile social manipulation, the cyber actions of Saudi Arabia against the Islamic Republic of Iran have been studied. For the present study, more than 900,000 data related to Iran in Arabic were extracted by Twitter from the social network Twitter until 2021 & 2022 years; Then, using the network analysis method, the activity of Saudi users has been specially studied. The results of the study show that Saudi Arabia, with its hostile social manipulation techniques, especially by investing in cyber tools, seeks to discredit, destabilize, weaken, and sometimes promote specific groups and institutions that are important to the country's competitive power.
Seyyed Rouhollah Hadj Zargarbashi; Milad Lotfi
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The Qatari diplomatic crisis in 2017, which led to the four-year siege of Qatar, has been one of the most important political crises in the West Asian region in the last decade and has had many effects and consequences. The present study seeks to identify the role of new media in this crisis. The authors ...
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The Qatari diplomatic crisis in 2017, which led to the four-year siege of Qatar, has been one of the most important political crises in the West Asian region in the last decade and has had many effects and consequences. The present study seeks to identify the role of new media in this crisis. The authors of this study using descriptive-explanatory method have concluded that due to the decisive role of new media in today's world, the diplomatic crisis in Qatar is no exception to this important variable and new media including various news agencies, satellite news networks and Virtual networks have been influential as an important stimulus in the various stages of this diplomatic crisis, from the beginning, escalation to reduction of the crisis and the beginning of reconciliation between the parties. Indeed, the new media has been one of the factors influencing the crisis, so that with the onset of the crisis and the escalation of the media war and conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar; Relations between the parties have become acute and intensified, and on the other hand, this factor has been effective in reducing the conflict between the parties and the beginning of reconciliation, so that with the beginning of the reconciliation process, media conflict between the parties decreased and in crisis management, various news agencies Public opinion in the region and the world paved the way for the resumption of political and economic relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
