Political Science
Mehdi Azizi; Ali Abedi Renani; Ali Ismaili Ardakani
Abstract
Virtual social networks have a very important and decisive role in today's human life. According to the technical conditions and the possibility of action that they create for their audience, these media create opportunities and threats for their users at the same time. In Iran, the filtering policy ...
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Virtual social networks have a very important and decisive role in today's human life. According to the technical conditions and the possibility of action that they create for their audience, these media create opportunities and threats for their users at the same time. In Iran, the filtering policy has always been seriously criticized. in this applied research, considering the importance of the role of ethics in policy-making, which can make policy-making less expensive while being easily accepted by the people, we have investigated the ethical justification of filtering in social networks. The data collection method of this research is a combination of library and field methods
According to the findings of this research, the absolute majority of the respondents did not consider the filtering policy to be ethical. According to the audience, filtering is in conflict with ethical standards in the following areas: Lack of justification and persuasion of people, violation of individual rights and human dignity, damage to people's interests, ineffectiveness and impracticality, context of violation and corruption, injustice in access to cyberspace facilities, unfairness and weakening of honesty and transparency. Finally, practical suggestions were presented to reduce the consequences of filtering.
Hossein Rafie; soroush razmi
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The Internet, as a public sphere, has created profound transformations in the forms of political participation that political scientists refer to as the emergence of post-modernist forms of Political participation. Many of the problems of modern societies are characterized by wicked issues, among which ...
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The Internet, as a public sphere, has created profound transformations in the forms of political participation that political scientists refer to as the emergence of post-modernist forms of Political participation. Many of the problems of modern societies are characterized by wicked issues, among which the political and social implications of social networks are the complex issues in the context of modern societies. Now, what is the effect of virtual networks as a wicked issue on the political sphere of Iran? Because in order to deal with wicked issues, the adoption of traditional approaches will fail, so other strategies will have to be adopted to deal with such problems. This article examines the multifaceted effects of social networks in the political atmosphere of Iran and shows the framework in which the management of government and official institutions of Iran should be. Decisions based on participation and striving for a deep understanding of technology can provide a positive environment for the emergence of new capabilities of Iranian society.
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Despite decades of expansion in international academic fields, the concept of social capital is still an under-researched area in Iranian domestic fields. This term has become a controversial and multidimensional concept, as each branch in the humanities has adopted and applied their own definition of ...
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Despite decades of expansion in international academic fields, the concept of social capital is still an under-researched area in Iranian domestic fields. This term has become a controversial and multidimensional concept, as each branch in the humanities has adopted and applied their own definition of the term, social capital. Giving a functional explanation of the term, this research aims at evaluating the quantitative and qualitative situation of youth’s political socialization process. The focus of this research is on the relationship between the concepts of ‘social capital,’ ‘socialization’ and ‘political affair.’ For the case study, this research focuses on university as a government institution in charge of political socialization in the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Specifically, the research tries to explore the effects of social capital on political socialization process of undergraduate students in public universities in the city of Tehran. The hypothesis of this research is that the higher the level of social capital in public universities in Tehran, the more successful the universities are in realizing the political socialization function of their undergraduate students. Eventually, this study will investigate effective contexts in the process of political socialization to highlight the political functions of social capital.
Amir Masood Shahram nia; Razie Mehrabi Koshki; Mahdie Poor ranjbar
Volume 3, Issue 9 , February 2015, , Pages 121-141
Abstract
Evaluation of the youth national Identity as the most vital, the most legitimate andthe most common type of collective identity, and the study of the factors influencingit, is one of the issues that have been the constant concern of sociologists andpolitical thinkers. The main concern in this respect ...
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Evaluation of the youth national Identity as the most vital, the most legitimate andthe most common type of collective identity, and the study of the factors influencingit, is one of the issues that have been the constant concern of sociologists andpolitical thinkers. The main concern in this respect is to preserve and enhance thecitizens’, especially the youth, sense of belonging and commitment to concepts suchas history, culture, state and the political system. One of the things that have comescarcely into theoretical and empirical examination is the impact of socialnetworking on a National Identity. Networks intensely touch the intra-group andinter-group interactions and communications of people and seem to influencenational identity and national consolidation.This study aims to investigate the issue of whether social networks can affectstudents’ national identity and how much they do so. The method used is surveyand data were collected using questionnaires distributed among a sample of 294university students in 2013-2014. Their reliability was calculated in formalmethods, and their validity was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, and finally,they were analyzed by 22SPSS software.The findings of this study suggest that there is strong and significantrelationship between inter-group networks and four dimensions of nationalidentity, namely, the socio-cultural, historical, political and territorial identity.The abovementioned networks have more impact on the socio-cultural, political,historical, and territorial identity, respectively. Also, despite the impact of intragroupsocial networks on political and socio-cultural identity, the total value didnot confirm any correlation between students’ national identity and intra-groupnetworks.
