Urban and Regional Development Planning
sobhan yahyaei; Moahmmad Mahdi Mowlaei; Reyhaneh Keshtkaran
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This article deals with the analysis of urban actors in social media and the role of these media in constructing the concept of the city and producing urban space. In this research, the analysis of Tehran as a complex metropolis has been done using Henri Lefebvre's "theory of space". For this purpose, ...
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This article deals with the analysis of urban actors in social media and the role of these media in constructing the concept of the city and producing urban space. In this research, the analysis of Tehran as a complex metropolis has been done using Henri Lefebvre's "theory of space". For this purpose, after quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of social media posts (Twitter and Instagram) related to the city of Tehran, using Mactor software, a prospective analysis was made about the relationships of the actors in this field. 10 groups of urban actors and four topics of urban goals and conflicts were identified and their relationships were determined in two matrixes of actor-actor and actor-goal. According to the findings, the group "Citizen and Non-Famous", "Mainstream Media", "Real Urban Management", "Social and Political Activist" and "Legal Urban Management" are the reinforcing and dominant actors with the most influence among the groups. Also, the three main players in the field of urban management, i.e. the accounts of "legal urban management", "actual urban management" and "urban management media" have the most convergence and considering the small distance between "councilors and citizen institutions" and the aforementioned groups, this group can be considered as an ally for the urban management complex. On the other hand, "social and political activists" have the most divergence among other actors.
Moahmmad Mahdi Mowlaei; Sobhan Yahyaei; Mozhgan Hajizadegan; Mohammad Hamed Ehsanbakhsh
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This article, with a theoretical lens made from the combination of "Good Urban Governance" and "Cultural Citizenship in the Age of Information", seeks to answer the question of how the two-way interaction of citizens and urban management can be understood through modern tools of information and communication ...
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This article, with a theoretical lens made from the combination of "Good Urban Governance" and "Cultural Citizenship in the Age of Information", seeks to answer the question of how the two-way interaction of citizens and urban management can be understood through modern tools of information and communication technology. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of gaining an understanding of the public opinion flow in cyberspace, and finding a pattern of urban interactions in it. For this, 18095 Instagram posts and 48300 Tweets were collected, and their quantitative and qualitative classification was done by quantitative content analysis and thematic analysis method. Then, a model of urban interactions was drawn. According to the findings of this study, urban activist groups on Twitter and Instagram can be divided into five categories: "Urban Management", "Governing Actors Related to Urban Management", "Political Groups", "People" and "Mass Media". The comparison of Instagram and Twitter shows a significant difference in this regard, and it can be said that the focus on Twitter, due to the diversity of active groups in it, more than Instagram can reflect the state of urban interactions on social media. Unlike Instagram, Twitter is dominated by content with a negative orientation towards Tehran's urban management, and actor interactions sometimes take a hostile approach.
