نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
Have the media of mass communication, especially the new communication technologies, have played a specific role in the creation of soft and violence-free political developments which are known as colorful revolutions? The present paper, while briefly describing the events in several East European countries and their soft revolutions, the common features of the events that have taken place, globalization –one of its components is the emergence of new media - and application of modern communication-information technologies, especially the Internet by the elites, parties, popular movements, civil institutions and foundations, reaches the conclusion that the media play an active role in increasing the awareness of the people and their political participations, leading the public opinion, bringing the masses to the scene and weakening of the position of authoritarian governments and can lead popular movements as such that to change the social system in the absence of using coercive instruments and by using the “peaceful methods” and “civil disobedience”
کلیدواژهها [English]
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