چکیده:
Twitter as a microblog is one of the most pervasive social media platforms today. This article seeks to answer two basic questions: "How much has Twitter helped to build the power and users activism?" And second, "What are the political, economic, and communication boundaries of Twitter in the public sphere?" Based on this, Twitter's position in influencing political power has been examined first, followed by the situation of Twitter storms in Iran and the analysis of important trends and events that have taken place on Twitter in 2018. The second part of this article is devoted to re-reading Jurgen Habermas's views on the public sphere and its relation to Twitter's critical analysis, in light of the general opinion of Shirky and Zizi Papacharissi. The power of political economy, the accumulation of capital, the role of hashtags, the stock market, the pseudo-public sphere and the public sphere built on Twitter are also the final topics of this article.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This article attempts to answer two fundamental questions: first, "To what extent has Twitter helped in creating power and agency for users?" and second, "What are the political, economic, and communicative boundaries of Twitter in the public sphere?" Accordingly, initially, the position of Twitter in influencing political power is examined, and then, the situation of Twitter storms in Iran and the analysis of trends and important events that occurred in Persian Twitter in the year 1397 (2018/2019) are discussed.
Trending (creating a trend) through hashtagging is a well-known phenomenon across all social networks, used to turn a specific topic into a general trend emphasized by a large number of users in a network and to attract the attention of public opinion, rulers, or major media outlets to a particular issue; this also applies to Twitter.
Therefore, trend-making with the help of hashtags is an ideal method for challenging the control of mainstream media by the people and changing the dominant news flow; it is done in such a way that what people (users) consider important is reflected through their own hands in the form of a conscious action.
" Social media like Twitter have transformed the private sphere "into a realm for establishing communication and preventing isolation, because they mainly connect individuals to politics and themselves [the person] to the state organization and society" (p.
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