Analysis of Economic Sanctions against Iran as a Social Reality in the Digital Space.

Autor: Mehrjardy, Masoud Zare', Asgharpourmasouleh, Ahmadreza, Nazarian, Alireza, Noghani, Mohsen
Zdroj: Journal of Applied Sociology (1735-000X); Summer2024, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p131-155, 25p
Abstrakt: Introduction This research took an interdisciplinary approach to the literature on sanctions. It examined the reasons for sanctions, as well as the effects and consequences of sanctions in general with a focus on anti-Iranian sanctions. The research aimed to represent and analyze the behaviors of the components within the digital network of sanctions. Iranian Twitter users were the target community for this article. However, the digital social reality of sanctions on Twitter was the result of all users who thought about, acted on, and were concerned with Iran sanctions. As a widely used social network where political news and interactions were frequently expressed and trending, Twitter was the most important community for investigating Iran sanctions. This was because those who imposed sanctions, as well as their defenders and opponents, were all present on this platform. As a result, a debate was unfolding on Twitter. Users on Twitter reproduced and redefined sanctions as an intertextual phenomenon, reintroducing it into the cycle of social reality production in the form of informal but impactful propositions. In general, the researchers in this study were aiming to conduct a big data analysis of the reactions and responses of activists within the Twitter space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index