Understanding of the Other in Cyberspace; Study of Political Parties in Iran, Fundamentalists and Reformists

• Main Authors: V. Shalchi, S. Rahimi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies 2017-12-01
• Series: Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān
• Subjects: understanding of the other; cyber-space; dialogue; monologue; Fundamentalists (Osol-Gara); Reformists (Eslah-Talab)
• Online Access: http://www.jicr.ir/article_352_f6bb9ce9070aec9871ea921c34c86c77.pdf

The Iranian society- despite wishes or some ideals or in a controversy way stereotypes - is a sophisticated society with high level of diversity across the class, ideologies, life styles etc. Therefore surviving of this historical entity requires a set of cultural trait, which fascinates social interactions across the diversity. This article based on Bakhtin and Bauman theoretical view, concerns on the imaginization of  each other through Reformist and Pricipalist political blocs. Through thematic analyses, it studies a sample of websites of two main wings of Iranian power field. The article looks to characterize the image of “self” and “other” that is created through political websites. The main questions are how they represent other and self. This is important if we want to problemize the dialogue in Iran. The results show that this way of narrative can not be a proper abscess for understanding the other as a key needs for Iranian circumstance. it almost shows a “bearable other” which can bear for our dignity not its deserved. In other word not for their right or merit but for their generosity.