نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 پژوهشگر ارشد، آزمایشگاه پژوهشی فضای سایبر، دانشگاه تهران، ایران (نویسنده مسئول).
2 استادیار، گروه مهندسی کامپیوتر دانشکده مهندسی دانشکدگان فارابی، دانشگاه تهران، ایران.
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The advent of the Promised Savior, Imam Mahdi, is contingent upon the realization of certain factors known as the components that prepare the ground for Mahdism. All such components require explanation and propagation so that different nations may become familiar with the discourse of Mahdism and the lofty goal of the Promised Savior, allowing the aspiration for his advent to gradually take root in their hearts. Although these components remain constant across eras and historical periods, the requirements for realizing them depend on the conditions of the time. In the present age, which is deeply influenced by the expansion and intensification of cyberspace in the daily life of individuals, a new ecosystem has emerged—one shaped by information-based existence. Therefore, clarifying the opportunities and threats of cyberspace, both in its essential (ontological) dimension and its functional dimension, is necessary for preparing the ground for fulfilling the ideals of Mahdism. Accordingly, this study employs library research for data collection and a qualitative–descriptive approach for data analysis. In the functional dimension, the findings indicate that the current global cyber infrastructure—due to content-policy structures influenced by the opposing front—has shifted away from neutrality and, in practice, operates unilaterally against the discourse of Mahdism. For this reason, cyberspace should be used as an extension of in-person explanatory and missionary activities so that if content is censored or removed, the core efforts of promoting the discourse of Mahdism remain uninterrupted. In the essential (ontological) dimension, the analysis shows that contemporary cyberspace presents two opportunities and one threat for the process of preparing the ground for Mahdism. The opportunities include: (1) familiarizing humanity with information-based social and civilizational construction grounded in the induction of understanding, and (2) enabling acceptance of the possibility of establishing a unified global governance. The threat, however, is the numbing of human interpretive capacity and independent analytical ability in the cyber-immersed individual, making the task of explanation more challenging than in the pre-cyber era.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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