Typology of the Iranian virtual social campaign, according to their goals (in first half 1390 decad)

The purpose of this article is to explore the origins and goals of specific social movements and activities in virtual social networks known as "campaigns". With the emergence of online social, the formation of public opinion and social movements in the world and also Iran took a different form.The current qualitative research was conducted with the aim of typology of online social campaigns (based on their goals) in Iran during 2011 and 2017. In order to achieve this goal, theoretical sampling to the point of data saturation have been done by studying 25 campaigns that were published in the online platforms of Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, news agencies and websites during the desired period, considering structural identity-oriented theories especially the information society theory of Castels and by using the virtual ethnography method. After the thematic analysis of the data, four types of main campaigns were identified based on the objectives, including environmental campaigns, protest campaigns, moral (public) campaigns, and cultural campaigns. In this research, it was found that although social campaigns and social movements cannot be closely related or separated, but by introducing online social campaigns as a type of new social movements in Iran, which are at least an introduction to social movements, It deals with the importance and need of local researches in this field. Finally, it turned out that most Iranian campaigns are about social issues &problems.