hadi khaniki; mohammad atabak; farid azizi
Abstract
With increasing of the expanding role of the cyberspace in social life, fundamental questions has been created such as about the social and political effects of the cyberspace and its related technologies. The aim of this study is to analyze the situation of Facebook social network with the approach ...
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With increasing of the expanding role of the cyberspace in social life, fundamental questions has been created such as about the social and political effects of the cyberspace and its related technologies. The aim of this study is to analyze the situation of Facebook social network with the approach of the Habermasian’s public sphere and possibility of the formation of virtual public sphere. For this purpose 8 Groups through active facebook groups purposefully have been selected and by using qualitative content analysis have been studied. The findings show that users by tracking issues discussed in virtual networks in connection with their social world, can have a more active role in public sphere. Findings also showed that Facebook, despite providing access for citizens to various information and the opportunity to speak on various topics, for reasons such as the uneven distribution of different capitals, superficial nature of the information, discontinuation of raised issues, Overcoming the display on the idea, fun aspect of the content, the lack of critical nature of the content and so on does not have the ability to become a virtual public sphere
