Blogging and Public Sphere in Iran

Nowadays many activist who try to shape the public sphere of their society in order to safeguard their historical identity have access to new technologies in mass media such as internet. The objective of this article is to evaluate the role of new media such as Iranian weblogs and internet websites created by young civil actives and journalists and some NGOs by the aim of founding and developing a society based on national and religious elements of Iranian culture through benefiting from the new waves of media technology. Exploring the process of this phenomenon in Iran, identifying the causes of its formation, and finally the challenges and opportunities ahead of the creators of this new wave are among the subjects that will be discussed in this paper.