Hossein Kermani; Fatemeh Rasouli; zahra majdizade
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This research sheds light on networked publics’ activism on Persian Twitter. Networked publics is a phenomena to understand dynamics and practices of social media users. Based on this concept and networked framing theory, we investigated tweet types, tweet tones and the ways of framing characters ...
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This research sheds light on networked publics’ activism on Persian Twitter. Networked publics is a phenomena to understand dynamics and practices of social media users. Based on this concept and networked framing theory, we investigated tweet types, tweet tones and the ways of framing characters (and tweet orientation toward them) by networked publics on Persian Twitter during Iran 2017 presidential election. We combined social network analysis, ethnographic content analysis and social media critical discourse study approach. First, we collected 2596284 tweets during the election period. Then, we focused on retweet (RT) network as the information diffusion network, and discovered networked publics by applying cluster analysis on this corpus. Afterwards, we identified 50 top influential users in each cluster based on their PageRanks. Finally, we collected all tweets of these users in the whole network and analyzed them. We used 3 coders to code the selected sample of 10416 tweets in 3 rounds. Results showed that commentary, quotation and news are the most frequent tweet types. Furthermore, Iranian users mostly tweeted using serious and sarcastic tones. Finally, our finding showed that Rouhani was the first name in framed characters.
hoseyn kermani; mansour saei
Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2017, , Pages 105-121
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This paper aims to explore the effects of Social Network Sites (SNSs) on ethnical identity in students of Tehran universities. SNSs have played an important role in the political, social, cultural and even economic events in recent years, so studying them and their effects is a necessary. Following such ...
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This paper aims to explore the effects of Social Network Sites (SNSs) on ethnical identity in students of Tehran universities. SNSs have played an important role in the political, social, cultural and even economic events in recent years, so studying them and their effects is a necessary. Following such rationale, we assess the effects of these sites on ethnical identity. Reviewing exiting literature shows that ethnical identity includes 4 dimensions: ethnical identification, ethnical culture belonging, ethnical community commitment, and political dimension. Also we used a combination of purpose and snowball sampling methods to gather the research sample, and research is done using online questionnaire. Facebook was chosen as a research field due to its popularity. Results show that there is a relation between SNSs using and ethnical identity. Despite the existence of this relationship we should mention that this correlation is weak.
