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Representation of the Protests of the Fall of 2022 in Iran on the Television Program "Shiveh"

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Samira Khatibzadeh 1
Negin Chekin 2
1 Corresponding author, Assistant Professor of Media Management, Cultural and Media Management Department, Faculty of Culture and Communication, Soore International University, Tehran, Iran. Email: khatibzade@soore.ac.ir.
2 Master in of Communication, Faculty of Culture and Communication, Soore International University, Tehran, Iran. Email: negin.chekin@gmail.com
10.22034/lrsi.2025.495447.1300
Abstract
Objective: This research has been done with the aim of analyzing the content of the TV show "Shiveh" in addressing the aspects of the protests of 2022 that took place after the death of Mrs. Mahsa Amini.
Methods: In this research, all 24 episodes broadcasted from the style-oriented talk show, between, 2022/09/20 to 2022/11/02 were studied using the method of quantitative content analysis and data coding in order to achieve analyzable results. And data analysis was done by SPSS software. In this research, "how to implement" and "management of this conversation-oriented program", "performance of presenter and guests", "characteristics of guests" and "type of view of guests towards 2022 protests and its dimensions" were investigated.
Results: The results of this study showed that the moderator, by managing the flow of the conversation and maintaining a relative balance in the allocation of time, as well as acceptable neutrality in commenting, has caused no margin in the conversation and its progress towards the main goals. The guests have also increased the attractiveness of the program by expressing their opinions during the conversations, and on the other hand, they have highlighted different aspects of the issue with their discourse biases. Also, experts' attention to two groups of "political" and "social" categories was measured.
Conclusions: The results show that the political categories have been more popular with 59 percent allocation and the governance category has been the most emphasized by the experts with 48 percent of the time allocated to political categories. In the "analysis of positions in the talks between the host and the guests”, 48 percent of the experts had a positive view on the category of people's right to protest, and 54 percentof the experts agreed with the category of the role of foreign interventions in the formation and escalation of protests. 
Keywords
Talk show
Shiveh Program
Television
Protest in Iran
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