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Information Polity (18758754)28(1)pp. 83-95
This article contributes to the debate on the effect of social media usage on political attitudes. Our research question is: Does the use of social media affect citizens' political trust? We test this research question using Egypt's Arab Barometer Wave V country data (2018-2019). We expect social media usage to increase political distrust among citizens through the three mediating variables: corruption perceptions, perceptions of poor government performance, and perceptions of missing guaranteed freedoms. Our quantitative study results confirm these mediating relationships; that is, social media usage significantly increases political distrust among Egyptian citizens by increasing corruption perceptions, perceptions of poor government performance, and perceptions of a lack of guaranteed freedoms. © 2023 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
Geopolitics Quarterly (17354331)18(67)pp. 228-255
Introduction Iran and its sub-region, namely the Persian Gulf, are geopolitically at the east-west crossroads and the intersection of Heartland and Rimland regions, and in the new geo-economics territories are also at the center of the energy strategy ellipse which is among the three areas of energy consumption centers, namely Europe, China and India. But despite having these resources and a superior position, the Iranian government in recent decades has not been able to use this privileged transit position for economic development and regional cooperation. Therefore, the present study aims to show how the geopolitical and geo-economics transit of oil and gas in the Persian Gulf can affect advancing regional policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Methodology Explaining the geopolitical and geo-economics position of energy transit in the Persian Gulf can be examined by the Hartland-Mackinder approach and the geo-economics perspective of Edward Luttwak. Edward Luttwack also believes that in the age of geo-economics, the means and causes of the conflicts of the present century (21st century) become economic in nature and economic tools replace military purposes. In this transition, energy is the most important element in the geo-economics competition, so that geostrategic domains are determined based on energy logic. Results and Discussion Examining the potential of Persian Gulf energy transit to consumption areas shows that in the Indian subcontinent, cooperation in the field of energy can create mutual benefits in other areas, including the expansion of the south-north corridor, the development of Chabahar, and transportation between the two sides. In the Central Asian region, the energy transit of landlocked countries through Iran creates a sense of commitment of these countries to Iran and, an atmosphere of cooperation in other areas including the development of the south-north corridor. Iran will also contribute to the country's energy security through the potential of the peace pipeline and the possibility of connecting it to China, as well as the ability to connect two important energy fields in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia and participate in strengthening Central Asian transmission lines of energy to China. Regarding Iran-Europe relations, in case of de-escalation of tensions and establishment of regular relations between the two sides, the ground for expansion of economic and political cooperation, including energy transit and regional security, should be provided. Conclusions Research findings show that the connection between the Persian Gulf energy transit corridors and the surrounding important consumer areas will link the fate of energy and economic security of these countries to the fate of Iran. This will create strategic partners in the field of energy transit, upgrade the regional position, increase the coefficient of economic development and consequently increase the level of national security of Iran. © 2022, Iranian Association of Geopolitics. All rights reserved.
Politologija (13921681)95(3)pp. 1-32
Theories of social capital, government performance, Islamic values, and globalization are among the most important tools that can be used to help explain individuals' political attitudes. The present research attempts to address the effects of the abovementioned factors on the political attitude of Arab citizens using the Arab Barometer Wave IV data. The results showed that only 23.2% of citizens disagreed with a democratic political system, while 70.3% and 60.1% expressed their opposition to authoritarian and Shari'ahbased systems. Results of the final model of research indicated that memberships in social associations, on the one hand, increased the tendency of individuals to support authoritarian and law-based political systems and, on the other hand, did not have any significant effect on the tendency toward supporting a democratic political system. It was concluded that improving economic performance not only affected the promotion of the Shari'ahbased political system, but that Political Performance also reduced the inclinations toward Shari'ah and authoritarianism. Furthermore, Political Performance increased the tendency of individuals to favor a democratic system. In addition, although individuals' support for a Shari'ah-based political system had increased, Islamic values did not act as a barrier that would keep individuals away from favoring a democratic political system. Among the variables of globalization, the expansion of communication reduced people's tendencies toward Shari'ah and authoritative political systems, along with a positive effect on strengthening support for democratic systems. Ultimately, Westernization only affected the shrinking support of some Shari'ah-based political systems. © 2019 Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi, Seyed Javad Emamjomehzadeh, Hossein Masoudnia.
Teorija in Praksa (00403598)55(3)pp. 666-683
The present study examines: (i) how online media (i.e. mobile applications, social media, and other traditional online media) influence individuals’ tendency to participate in presidential elections; and (ii) their political orientation (i.e. tending towards Principalist political groups and Reformist groups) in the relationship between social media use and political participation. Multivariate analyses show that only mobile app uses are positively related to the tendency to participate in presidential elections. The results also show that mobile apps and social media and traditional online media influence political orientation among a sample of Iranians that is considered, and that online media thus attracts people’s attention and adds to their tendency to support political reformist parties. © 2018, Ljubljana University, Faculty of Social Sciences. All rights reserved.
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences (discontinued) (20392117)6(5S1)pp. 319-322
From 2010 onwards, the international system has observed public protests providing the situation for entering a new level of political and social evolutions around the world and the region. The transition from collective action based on class to action based on notions of identity, transition from unilateralism in action to interactive model and relationship-based and transition from economic aims in the form of collective action to symbolic cultural and political aims have been the main elements of evolution of social movement in the recent years. The current article is a response to the reason of incidence of such evolution and why the pluralism and increased access of people to political procedures, development of information and communication technologies, and highlighting the role of civil society, non-governmental organizations and expansion of role of new middle class have resulted in such evolution. Discussions made by authors such as Alberto Melucci regarding the interactive and identity-based action, could be appropriate theoretical frameworks for surveying the process of transition from conventional social movement to new social movement (NSM). From the point of research condition, the current article is a descriptiveanalytical survey and from the point of aim it is an applied survey. © 2015 Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved.
Advances in Environmental Biology (19950756)8(24)pp. 462-465
Emphasizing information sources of media by which nomination is done is a way to understand and predict human communities and political culture. The media serve as the medium between human and his environment, conveying intentionality means (semantic) phenomena through multiple interaction as well as manipulating individual and collective power games. One of the most significant ways to know citizens who are living in a given political unit is to focus on the media and ways of conveying meaning among citizens. At first stage, media appear as technology tools adopted by an advanced class and dominate architecture, music, theater, writing, communication and all areas, and, after a while, media get an ubiquitous status. As media gets ubiquitous and is involved in everyday life, intermediate semantic techniques get out of instrumental tools, turning into the environment that can be assumed to be a form of life style. Media form both tools and life-style and their importance is such that to understand the main phenomena such as political culture of a society, the social media can be easily evaluated and they help to know which variables and indices form the basis of legitimacy, political philosophy, good governance, political protests, political efficacy and political structures. In this context, the present study attempts to explore the relationship between using satellite and the kind of political culture. © 2014 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.
Advances in Environmental Biology (19950756)8(24)pp. 466-469
One of the means of understanding human communities and predicting their political behavior and culture is focusing on information resources of media through which labeling is done. Media are intermediaries between human and his environment and often convey meanings through multilateral actions and interactions in form of intention-making phenomena by manipulating individual and collective power games. In order to understand the citizens of a political unit, the most scientific research is related to understanding media and the way they convey the citizen’s meanings. Media initially present themselves as technological instruments and dominate architecture to music, theatre, calligraphy, communications and all areas and after a while, they take a comprehensive form. By the expansion of the media and their becoming part of daily life, intermediate meaning-creating techniques no longer function merely as instruments and become part of the biological world and are able to shape people’s lifestyles. The media shape both the instruments and lifestyles of people and they are so important that understanding such an important phenomenon as the political culture of any society is possible by simply analyzing the media of that society and find out on what parameters are the legitimacy, political philosophy, preferred governance, political protests, political efficiency and other political structures of the society based. In this regard, the present study attempts to investigate the relationship between internet usage and type of political culture. © 2014 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.
Naghdeali, Z.S.,
Emamjomehzadeh, S.J.,
Masoudnia, H.,
Ghasemi, V. International Business Management (discontinued) (19935250)8(6)pp. 384-393
The world today issue of the human psyche and personality plays an important role in social and political activities. Character and mental stability is an important point in setting goals and making decisions, those characters are realistic and stable comfort can decide either to participate in social and political activities. Several factors have an influence in shaping personality and psychological identity such as family, school, community and communication devices, etc., so how to get people in these circumstances and socialization of individuals makes personality and psychological identity and formed according to the identity, participate in political activities. Accordingly, the question examined in this study is: How personality and psychological identity influence in political activities? Recent analyses have demonstrated that personality affects political behavior. According to the mediation hypothesis, the effect of personality on political participation is mediated by classical predictors, such as political interest, internal efficacy, political discussion or the sense that voting is a civic duty. The purpose of this research is examine how the formation personality and psychological identity and type the characters influence in political activities. © Medwell Journals, 2014.
Naghdeali, Z.S.,
Emamjomehzadeh, S.J.,
Masoudnia, H.,
Ghasemi, V. Advances in Environmental Biology (19950756)8(13)pp. 1024-1031
The aim of this study is to investigate the link between religion and identity crisis in Iran. Identity of Iran influenced of Islam, the West and the Iranian So some people are struggling with these and somehow be an identity crisis, another form of identity crisis takes shape at smaller gatherings such as work, family and… But the question is why people can not make good decisions in the communities are or do the task and obligations. Why are people suffering from an identity crisis? Do solved the identity crisis with religious approach? Although there are many different interpretations of the faith in various community, but in this paper we show how the religious approach to deconstructing identity crisis. © 2014 AENSI Publisher. All rights reserved.
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (discontinued) (20407459)5(1)pp. 171-175
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of social text and context on the political thinking of the contemporary Shiite scholars. On the one hand, contemporary scholars' political thinking exists at the heart of modernity's recent social and political events and in the framework of their understanding of religious teachings in Quran and Sunnah on the other hand. Thus, through their interactions in social contexts and their perception of texts, we may understand their thinking. On the one hand, the struggles, interests and side takings of social and political forces inarguably influence the formation and development of the contemporary scholars' political thinking. On the other hand, religious texts and deductions from them have been effective in understanding new concepts and problems. In this regard, this research attempts to comparatively investigate the effect of social text and context on the political thinking of contemporary Shiite scholars of Samarra, Najaf and Qom schools using discourse and cognitive-comparative methods. © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2013.
