تحليل سنجش ميزان تأثير رسانه‌هاي اجتماعي در تغيير ساختارها و فرهنگ سياسي در كشورهاي ايران، تركيه و مصر (با تأكيد بر داده‌هاي پيمايش ارزش‌هاي جهاني اينگلهارت)

An Analysis of the Impact of Social Media on Transforming Political Structures an‎d Culture in Iran, Turkey, an‎d Egypt (With Emphasis on Data from Inglehart World Values Survey)

علوم سياسي

Today, modern communication technologies have significantly expan‎ded an‎d penetrated the cultures of human societies. Political culture is no exception to these cultural changes. It can be said that nearly all aspects of human life have been influenced by these technologies. The central issue of the present research concerns the effects of the widespread use of modern communication technologies—particularly social media—on political culture in three countries: Iran, Turkey, an‎d Egypt. These countries were selec‎ted due to their cultural similarities, urban population structures, types of political systems, an‎d historical depth. To test the research hypotheses, the seventh wave of the World Values Survey data was used. The findings show that social media has influenced various aspects of political culture in these societies, while in some areas, it has had little to no effect. The most significant influence was observed among Iranian citizens. In this study, data from the World Values Survey was utilized due to it being one of the largest available datasets for examining political culture. For analyzing the available data, the method of secondary data analysis was employed. The impact of social media on citizensʹ inclination toward democratic an‎d authoritarian political systems was statistically significant an‎d positive among Iranian citizens, while it was statistically significant an‎d negative among citizens of Egypt an‎d Turkey. The impact of social media on secular an‎d emancipative values among Iranian citizens was positively an‎d significantly correlated with seven components of these values. In Egypt, however, no significant correlation was found between social media an‎d any emancipative values. In Turkey, lesser influence was observed on secular values, while a greater influence was noted on emancipative values. A key finding is that the highest degree of influence was observed among Iranian citizens—both in terms of emancipative an‎d secular values.

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