Hossein Kermani; Fatemeh Rasouli; zahra majdizade
Abstract
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.
Hossein AghaBabaie; Zahra Ahmadi-Natur
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2016, , Pages 1-24
Abstract
With arriving to information and communications technology period, new issues and problems in relate to privacy and data protection laws have been introduced gradually that resolving those need to review in current laws or approve new and universal laws. The most countries such as Germany have the laws ...
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With arriving to information and communications technology period, new issues and problems in relate to privacy and data protection laws have been introduced gradually that resolving those need to review in current laws or approve new and universal laws. The most countries such as Germany have the laws for data protection but some countries such as Iran have not universal and coherent laws in this field. Hence, the purpose of this paper is comparison of crimes against privacy in cyberspace between Iran and Germany. This comparison show that Iran law has serious flaws such as lack some of the principles governing personal data, incompletion the predicted principles, and referring some other principles to different regulations, that so it must be reviewed by the legislator. On the other, lack of comprehensive regulations regarding privacy protections hinders the understanding and proper implementation of data protection in the courts and administrative bodies. "Privacy Act" which was prepared for presentation to Parliament, has been resolved this problem partly, that if its problems is resolved and if approved, these deficiencies are partly removed.
