چکیده:
This paper examines how the networked publics on Twitter are taking shape in Iran. While Twitter's role in political events has increased, the systematic study on this issue has not grown as expected. Accordingly, considering the importance of Twitter in Iran as well as the role of networking publics in Twitter, the first step in analyzing Twitter's role in politics in Iran is to identify and analyze the characteristics and structure of such network publics. The purpose of this research paper, therefore, is to identify and analyze the structure of networking publics on the Persian website. We collected the necessary data during the 25 days of the presidential election of 2017. To do such research, in addition to using the theoretical concept of the public, we have combined the methods of social network analysis and ethnographic content analysis. The modularity of clusters indicates that there are three main clusters in the retweet network as follows: 1- the reformists' cluster, 2- the fundamentalists' cluster, and 3- The immigrant cluster. To describe the features of these three, we identified active users of each one based on the PageRank index. The findings indicate that active users are often made up of journalists, the media, and ordinary citizens. There is also a significant gender gap in the network of publics. Most of the members' accounts of these publics remained active after the election, but the members of these three network publics are different from each other in terms of their true identity..
خلاصه ماشینی:
Networked publics in Persian Twitter; analysis of network clusters Persian Twitter in the 2017 Presidential Election Hamid Abdollahian Professor of Social Communication Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran.
Among the concepts proposed by researchers, the concept of networked publics 1 R\d%1 has received attention because it can explain how virtual communities are formed and through them, users play a role in shaping and advancing political movements.
Therefore, given the importance of knowing and understanding the structure of networked publics to explain political activism on Twitter, as well as the research gap regarding networked publics in Iran, we attempt in this study to first identify the networked publics in Persian Twitter and then answer the following questions: Research Question 1: What is the type of users constituting the networked publics in Persian Twitter?
Characteristics of influential users in the Reformist network community (Refer to the page image) 127 Users who are members of media or organizations (12 users in this community meet these conditions) have been logically excluded from the analyses for identifying gender and identity variables.
Characteristics of users in the Principalist network community (Refer to the page image) 130 Variable Classes Sub-classes Frequency Percentage Abundance (Refer to the page image) Media and organizations (7 nodes) have been logically excluded from the calculations related to gender and identity (Table 5).
Another point we must note is that the BBC Persian user account, although this network operates outside of Iran, is among the influential nodes of the Reformist cluster; therefore, it has been included in the legacy media group in this community.
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