چکیده:
Undoubtedly, the expansion of participation and competition among social groups in political lifeis one of the major goals of political development. Meanwhile, given the significant changes taken place in the socio-political life of societies, the traditional tools affecting political participation have somewhat weakened. Today, social networking sites are consideredas one of the most important types of cyber social networksthat affect political participation in various societies. The present article aims to examine the impact ofonline social networks on the political participation of their users.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"In fact, the main causes for the emergence of these hopes are as follows: its interactive nature and capabilities (especially after the transition to the second generation of the Web and the emergence of online social networking sites) as a means of interacting with people who could not be linked to one another, its increasing universality that has out-competed the geographical component or spatial distance, as well as the relative inability of states to control its content (Orr. 2007: 2).
In this article, he has evaluated the impact of the Internet and its facilities, in particular, social networking sites,on the promotion of democracy [in which political participation is undoubtedly a key component] through arelatively optimistic perspective.
Reinforcement hypothesis: Proponents of this hypothesis believe that online social networks and, in general, all new communication technologies support the ruling power and its better distribution, because individuals and organizations withauthorityalready active in the political processcan control the production, dissemination, and application of these technologies and employ them for their purposes (Apr. 2007: 5).
As a result, as noted above, researchers who are optimistic to the Internet and online social networks argue that two features of the Internet and social networks have developed a positive and hopeful look at the positive impact of this new communication medium on political participation and the promotion of democracy.
For the approval of this claim, one can point out the results of a quantitative research on students of Tehran University regarding the impact of online social networks on political participation in post-election events."