At one point, messages would come on social networks about someone from a distant country contacting you and saying that one of your relatives with a similar last name has passed away and left a huge fortune behind. Now, this person from the bank wants to transfer this money to you as the heir. However, […]...

Perhaps on February 4, 2004 AD – the day Facebook was born – few people thought this university project would one day cross all borders of the world. This project was created by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends (Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes) at Harvard University; a project that introduced a […]...

The discussion of “citizenship rights” has had many ups and downs throughout history, starting with political rights in ancient Greece and later evolving into cultural, social, and civil rights. Recently, with the expansion of digital technologies and virtual space, the topic of citizenship rights in the digital and virtual realm has gained attention. For years, […]...

November 25th, which coincides with December 4th, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is the root cause of gender inequality and the most widespread and pervasive symbol of human rights violations in the world. Despite the fact that sixty-three years have passed since the assassination of the […]...

In recent years, what has separated our society from serious governance and has led to widespread despair from any political action, is the lack of response from the government to the demands of the majority of our society. During these years, these demands have been expressed in various ways, such as through participation in election […]...

“In a place where there are no rules for chaos to be accepted, chaos must first be integrated into the legal system through the creation of a zone of indistinction between inside and outside, between chaos and normalcy – that is, through an exceptional state. In order for there to be a relationship to something, […]...

It is enough for a sound to go beyond a certain level, an excuse will be created to impose a new restriction. This is a policy that has been seriously considered in Iran in the past three decades to deal with “free flow of information and freedom of expression”. A policy that began with filtering, […]...

“We will face mass killings in the not-so-distant future; where young people will gather and engage in killing each other.” This warning comes from Taqi Azad Armaki, a sociologist and professor at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Social Sciences. It is a warning about the violence in the younger generation, which is the motivation […]...

For centuries, or perhaps thousands of years, Iranian women have faced oppression and limitations, which continue to this day. However, it seems that the younger generation is experiencing different conditions compared to women of past generations in Iran, thanks to the internet and virtual space. Patriarchy still exists and both the government and society are […]...

Representation of violence in Iranian artworks and films, as well as religious rituals such as self-flagellation, can contribute to an increase in the inclination and action towards violence against oneself, which manifests in the form of self-harm. The phenomenon of self-harm is considered a social issue in the world, and is particularly prevalent among young […]...

You can buy a great house with four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but one person spent this amount to buy a house in the three-dimensional virtual environment of Metaverse to be in the neighborhood of a famous rap singer named Snoop Dogg. Only in January 2022, Metaverse properties were sold for eighty-five million dollars. […]...

Is the digital generation depressed? “Two ten and thirteen-year-old children from Lorestan committed suicide on August 18, 2022 by hanging and shooting themselves. According to the news agency “Hrana”, from April to August 20, 2022, thirty-three cases of suicide among children and adolescents aged eleven to eighteen have been reported in the country, and only […]...