Comments on: Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere.

Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere.

chunking express — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:42:41 -0800

Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere.

From the abstract:

We used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogosphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging from politics and human rights to poetry, religion, and pop culture. Our research indicates that the Persian blogosphere is indeed a large discussion space of approximately 60,000 routinely updated blogs featuring a rich and varied mix of bloggers. Social network analysis reveals the Iranian blogosphere to be dominated by four major network formations, or poles, with identifiable sub-clusters of bloggers within those poles. We label the poles as 1) Secular/Reformist, 2) Conservative/Religious, 3) Persian Poetry and Literature, and 4) Mixed Networks.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:51:45 -0800

Too bad the present administration, given its priorities, appears more interested in mapping Iranian oil fields...

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:50:40 -0800

Speaking of Iran, here are some photos of the country your President is planning on destroying.

By: YouRebelScum

YouRebelScum — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:41:56 -0800

Great post. What can you say about a place where one huge section of the blogs is dedicated to poetry, and another to strict (for want of a better term, and disliking "fnudamentalist") religion? What a country.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:38:33 -0800

Iran's brutal morality police are growing in power, warns Nobel Prize-winner