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Authors

• kiamars jahangir ¹
• hosin divsalar ²

¹ Assistant Professor of political science, Tehran University,

² Ph.D. student in political sociology

Abstract

What role media play in the process of power distribution and political transformation? This is the main question of this paper. We attempt to investigate the relation between the political transformation and media, and doing so, we, through our chosen approach, look at the tenth presidential election in Iran and the role the media have played in the election. The media played a major role in the tenth presidential election. The broadcast of TV debates of candidates from the national media for the first time played a special role in transferring the political discourse into public space which is a unique event in the political history of the country. This research has a qualitative and fundamental nature which has been done by documentary-librarian and analytic-descriptive methods

Keywords

• Media
• political change
• presidential election
• Internet
• television and cyberspace