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The expansion of communication and information technologies has led to transition from industrial society to networked society. Internet folds geographical borders and forms a new society. In this society, different dimensions of life have changed including its political dimensions and electoral systems. Now presidential candidates and their partisans use various means for expressing their own electoral programs and platforms. The web space, one of these means because of being outside of power sphere, interactional activity, freedom from time and place suits this perpose well. In the ninth presidency election of Iran this means this essay, with the aim of considering the extent of news coverage in the ninth presidential election in the web space, studied the type of materials presented in the sites of Baztab, Rooydad, Emrooz, Using content analysis.

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