Kiuomars Yazdanpanah Dero; Yashar Zaki; Azim Zamani
Volume 8, Issue 1 , August 2018, , Pages 8-35
Abstract
By entering the virtual world, the traditional concept of government that had correlated with geographical boundaries, became foggy. And consequently, citizenship and democracy in their ...
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By entering the virtual world, the traditional concept of government that had correlated with geographical boundaries, became foggy. And consequently, citizenship and democracy in their definition faced with functional ambiguity. In this regard, two general views can recognize about the Internet. Whether the internet reinforces of democracy and thus civil rights or not. In the optimistic view, the internet increases scale and speed of information and more control and Supervision on Information regime Provides the Information Users. Hence, in this Approach, the obligation for unlimited information is the obligation for better democracy and civil rights. Another view has the arguments on Internet inefficiency in politics and field of citizenship. In regard to the elements of identity such as gender, race, social situation of people and spatial and geographical inequalities, this approach represents that the Internet has a discriminatory character. Finally, the Internet space is under the strong influence of the capitalistic economic interests and therefore growing inequality shows than the real world. This research by using descriptive analytical approach seeks to critically examine the Internet and its relationship with citizenship and democracy. The results show that these concepts in the virtual space isn't affected by this space and vice versa further influenced by the real space and discourse of the modern government
