Examining Practices of the Iranian Ethnic Representation in Virtual Social Networks

Subject Areas : Media Management

Hamideh Gohari ¹ , Bahareh Bakhshi ² , Seyed Hamid Razavi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری علم اطلاعات و دانش شناسی دانشگاه تهران عهده دار مکاتبات
2 - عضو هیئت علمی پردیس علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی دماوند
3 - کارشناس ارشد علوم ارتباطات اجتماعی، پردیس علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی دماوند

Received: 2014-08-05 Accepted : 2015-02-03 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords: Information society, Social Networking, Facebook,

Abstract :

The emergence of social networks in the modern world a unique opportunity for the groups that has no chance of being media is provided. Birth thousands of blogs, social networks and user centered media, Iranians before communicating and expressing their cultural and ethnic concerns is strong. Due to the diversity of ethnic, racial, cultural and unique country that has a lot of potential to have a presence in cyberspace. Over the past few years with the advent of social networking Iranian ethnic group has the ability to display a unique opportunity for what it did not provide Ahead of you is an effort to explore ways of representing the Iranian ethnic group in Facebook. Researcher uses content analysis to examine the contents of ethnic media in this regard. The results showed that the expression of cultural notions of Iranian ethnic group in the media