The Role of the Press in Social Mobilization from 1979 to 2005

The main argument in this paperis that the media activities (the press in particular) as one of the three sides of social mobilization have improved after the Islamic Revolution along with development in education and literacy. In the mid 1980’s،thearea of activities of the press have developed with the rapid growth of public higher education، urbanization and the increasing demand for political freedom. One of the most important indicators of political development issocial mobilization. In other words، social mobilizationoften includes the infrastructure of political development and is also the cornerstone of the development process. Social mobilization is the result of there lation between the level of urbanization، education، training and activities in the media and publication of information. As dependent factors، these three variable scontributeto the process of political participation and lead to political development.