simin veisi; mohammad saeed zokaei; Ali Entezari
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There is a gap between everyday definitions of justice and policy texts. Purpose of this study is to investigate the definitions of justice in these two areas in order to eliminate possible gaps. Types of definitions including distributive, procedural, interactional and epistemic justice extracted from ...
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There is a gap between everyday definitions of justice and policy texts. Purpose of this study is to investigate the definitions of justice in these two areas in order to eliminate possible gaps. Types of definitions including distributive, procedural, interactional and epistemic justice extracted from theoretical texts were selected for theoretical sensitivity and virtual ethnography and thematic analysis were used to examine cyberspace and policy texts. The results show that young people's definition of justice mainly includes distributive and procedural justice and is consistent with the commodity definition of formal discourse, while centralism and differentiation in the distribution of goods seen in policy findings are criticized. Although cyberspace data emphasized the importance of informational and epistemic justice for young people, but informational justice means exposing young people to information and decision-making, and epistemic justice means involving young people in the process of making sense of justice and their presence in policy-making processes has rarely been seen in policy-making texts. Although some youth documents and resolutions have emphasized youth participation in various matters, there has been no codified policy regarding the presence of youth in organizations, parties and non-governmental organizations that are involved in macro-policies. Youth oriented cultural policies also face problems such as disregard for different lifestyles, otherization due to pathological attitudes that lead to policing and judicialization of issues, and outsourcing of their duties.
mohsen neizi; mohammad ganji; mohammad karkonannasrabad
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces ...
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces were focused. It was a survey study and the research instrument was questionnaire. 313 subjects were selected by stratified random sampling method from among the students of ShahidChamranUniversity. The results showed that therewas a significant and positive relation between duration of using Internet and societal using of Internet with social capital (bonding/bridging) in cyberspaces. Therewas also a significant and negative relation between duration of using Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Therewas no significant relation between societal using of Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Moreover, therewas a negative and significant relation between social capital in cyberspaces and that of non cyberspaces. It indicates that increase in social capital in cyberspace leads to decrease in social capital in non cyberspace.
ailhossein hosseinzadeh; mohammadali mombeni; shahroz forotankia
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces ...
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces were focused. It was a survey study and the research instrument was questionnaire. 313 subjects were selected by stratified random sampling method from among the students of ShahidChamranUniversity. The results showed that therewas a significant and positive relation between duration of using Internet and societal using of Internet with social capital (bonding/bridging) in cyberspaces. Therewas also a significant and negative relation between duration of using Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Therewas no significant relation between societal using of Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Moreover, therewas a negative and significant relation between social capital in cyberspaces and that of non cyberspaces. It indicates that increase in social capital in cyberspace leads to decrease in social capital in non cyberspace.
abotorab Talebi; Ya var Evazi
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Many scholars are on the belief that ethnicity, ethnocentrism, and nationalism are sensitive issues of countries. As a result of the growth of information capacities of the modern world in the last few decades, ethnic tensions have been increased and created new issues. Taking a content analysis approach, ...
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Many scholars are on the belief that ethnicity, ethnocentrism, and nationalism are sensitive issues of countries. As a result of the growth of information capacities of the modern world in the last few decades, ethnic tensions have been increased and created new issues. Taking a content analysis approach, the present research aims to study the issue of ethnic identity-seeking in cyberspace. The statistical population included all the contents of the 29 websites active in the ethnic (i.e. Turk/Azeri) identity-seeking affairsin May, 2012. In this paper, the concept of ‘ethnic identity-seeking’ is studied on a scale from ethnocentrism, being the lowest grade, and ethnic cleansing, being the highest grade. The results showed that the majority of ethnic materials in cyberspace were related to ethnocentrism (54%). These materials are written with purpose of promoting thoughts such as enmity of Persians and Turks, colonization of Turks by the Persian government, and historical as well as geographical distortion of Azerbaijan. Separatist nationalism, beingmore radical than ethnocentrism, focuses on the necessity of separating from Iran land and the independence of Turkish regions of Iran. The majority of the materials related to ethnic identity-seeking are generated by the ‘ArazNews’, ‘Qirmiz’, and ‘Gunaz.TV’ websites. What is most blamed by these media includes the government of the Islamic Republic as well as some Turk activists.
