hadi khaniki; ali ahmadi
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Crises are an integral part of social life and their number and diversity are increasing day by day. Social media plays an important role in crisis management due to its extensive capabilities in attracting audiences and the ability to shape public opinion. The present study aimed to investigate the ...
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Crises are an integral part of social life and their number and diversity are increasing day by day. Social media plays an important role in crisis management due to its extensive capabilities in attracting audiences and the ability to shape public opinion. The present study aimed to investigate the reflection of Covid 19 on social networks by analyzing the content published in Iranian telegram channels about the prevalence of corona. For this purpose, using quantitative and qualitative methods, the messages published in this regard in the period of March 2020 to September 2020 have been analyzed. The findings show that with the decrease in the intensity of Covid-19 related content dissemination, people's sensitivity and attention to the application of restrictions during the period under review has decreased. Also based on the content analysis of telegram posts, "The situation of corona outbreaks, reopening of schools, holding entrance exams, Muharram ceremonies, economy , medical staff, government actions and scientific materials related to Covid-19 " as the main topics The attention of Iranian telegram channels was obtained during the research period.
Hadi Khaniki; Amir Yazdian
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The first media religion studies dates back to 70s and 80s. Until the 1990s, this field had not been seriously considered by scholarships. Media studies’ affection by cultural studies and its apostasy (an important feature of cultural studies) are the main reasons for abandoning religion in media ...
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The first media religion studies dates back to 70s and 80s. Until the 1990s, this field had not been seriously considered by scholarships. Media studies’ affection by cultural studies and its apostasy (an important feature of cultural studies) are the main reasons for abandoning religion in media studies. Religious scholars also considered the mass media to be a factor in the weakening of religion, and therefore paid less attention to media studies. However, the emphasis of cultural approaches on the processes of meaning-making in society and the importance of religion as one of the most important components in the process of meaning-making of human agency caused attention to be turned to religion. Therefore, since the 90s, we have witnessed the growth of literature in the field of religion and media studies. Studies that began with the efforts of scholars such as Clifford Geertz and James Carey have continued up to the date and have grown due to the widespread influence of new media and their unique features at the community level. Examining the performance of religious groups, audience-oriented approach, examining religious news coverage, content analysis of religious topics, policy-making and critical content analysis have been among the main subjects of studies in this field, in recent years. However, the most important approaches to this emerging field of study can be found in Marshall McLuhan's "Technological Determinism"; Stig Hjarvard's "The Mediatization of Religion"; Stewart Hoover's "Mediation of Meaning"; Gordon Lynch’s "Mediation of Sacred Forms"; and Heidi Campbell’s "Religious-Social Shaping of Technology."
Maryam moghimi; hadi khaniki; Seyyed Ali asghar Soltani
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The leading article has been written with the aim of analyzing the critical discourse of women's hatred against women on the pages of female users on Instagram. Based on this, referring to Glirdoneh's views in the field of combating internet hatred, the critical discourse of the pages of four female ...
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The leading article has been written with the aim of analyzing the critical discourse of women's hatred against women on the pages of female users on Instagram. Based on this, referring to Glirdoneh's views in the field of combating internet hatred, the critical discourse of the pages of four female users active in the field of women was analyzed. To this end, according to Theon E.'s discourse analysis approach, Vandik was considered a special work for recording and extracting information from the text of selected news. The results show that the analysis of the examined posts indicates three types of violence: Against discrimination and patriarchy, against the institution of the family and the traditional role of women, and finally redemption towards feminist and modern values through the lens of destruction, and against traditional values and the attempt to break the cage of traditions. In the overall result of the study of the discourse of the studied pages, it was found that the central signifier is the sum of the studied posts. In the discourse order, female identity is "social". Women must be present in society. The presence of women in society leads to female awareness. Gender equality will occur. Other peripheral signs such as "denial of collectivism", "sexual relations" and "gender equality" form the discourse of female users in the discourse of female identity. This discourse also implies others for itself, often in the form of petrified identities. This discourse also considers Others in the form of patriarchy, inhumanity, sexual dysfunction, polygamy, historical discrimination, etc.
hadi khaniki; Hossein Kermani
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Alongside with the advent and proliferation of internet usage in societies, more debates on the potentials of internet in reviving or reshaping the public sphere or even creating a new one has aroused. Thus, this paper is trying to evaluate if a micro public sphere is shaped in a Telegram group where ...
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Alongside with the advent and proliferation of internet usage in societies, more debates on the potentials of internet in reviving or reshaping the public sphere or even creating a new one has aroused. Thus, this paper is trying to evaluate if a micro public sphere is shaped in a Telegram group where Iranian journalist had discussed the requirements and conditions for establishing a professional association. Telegram is the most popular Instant Messaging Application in Iran now, and its groups provide a very convenient space for discussions and conversations. That is why numerous groups are created to enable people to participate in public and (potentially) free discussions. In September 2016, when some Iranian journalist tried to establish a professional association for Tehran-based journalists, a group in Telegram was created which attracted more than 600 members at that time. The announced purpose of the group was exploring the circumstances and providing helpful suggestions for those working to prepare the statute of the association. Thus, using a triangulation of three methods, we tried to achieve a close reading of messages in the group (we analyzed 1117 messages from the beginning before the theoretical saturation was achieved). We identified 5 different kinds of conversations: simple, empathy, non-challenging, challenging, and hostile. Findings showed that the members’ actions in some cases can be seen as communicative rather than instrumental or strategic. Results also indicated that as debates got more hostile, many of public sphere’s norms were violated.
yousef khojir; hadi khaniki
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This paper identifies the capacities and challenges of virtual social networks in the development of civil society in Iran and the attitudes of civil activists in Tehran about them. This study was a blended method and its method was deep interviewing and scrolling. The statistical population in the qualitative ...
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This paper identifies the capacities and challenges of virtual social networks in the development of civil society in Iran and the attitudes of civil activists in Tehran about them. This study was a blended method and its method was deep interviewing and scrolling. The statistical population in the qualitative section of academic scholars and civil and party activists, among them 27, were selected through targeted sampling and a small portion of civil activists in Tehran, among which 384 were selected by simple random sampling. The findings show that experts have 16 capacities and 12 challenges for social networks in developing or weakening civil society. The discovery of equality, the possibility of dialogue, disclosure, the establishment of a communication link, the reduction of the cost of civil activities, freedom to exchange information, defend civil society, introduce abnormal civic behaviors, coverage, strengthening social capital, increasing the power of choice, including capacities. weakness of professional use, filtering policy, false civil demands, the existence of a state of government monitoring and control, the expansion of cyberspace problems to civil society, they are among the challenges. Among these cases, the civil activists in Tehran have the most important capacity for civil society networks to attract people to networks, easy access to citizens, and categorize their views and reduce the cost of civil activities. And the most important challenge is the weakness of professional use, filtering policies, and the dissemination of false civil claims.
Susna Bastani; hadi khaniki; Saeed Arkanzadeh Yazdi
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The Research Evaluates new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media. It seems that new media in Iran these days deeply effect on mainstream media and even in some cases makes them to lose their functions. This research tries to evaluate new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media’s internal ...
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The Research Evaluates new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media. It seems that new media in Iran these days deeply effect on mainstream media and even in some cases makes them to lose their functions. This research tries to evaluate new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media’s internal mechanisms and also relations between them with the people and with politic and economic powers. New media impacts on mainstream media and their relations with people were evaluated by qualitative survey methodology. Eventually researcher concluded that new media by themselves did not reduce the mainstream media consumption but the tough controls and lack of professionalism in mainstream media were the critical cause of consumption, trustfulness and influence decline so new media rise only has amplified these consequences. In fact, this study found that people have immigrated to new media because of weak mainstream media but they could not entirely alternate with mainstream media.
Hamed Talebian; hadi khaniki
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In cyberspace, a hyperlink from one website into another one is a link that connects various websites into each other. Connecting sites by hyperlink provides a nested network from information resources that its extent hypothetically covers the whole web space. In this research, I try to study a hyperlink ...
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In cyberspace, a hyperlink from one website into another one is a link that connects various websites into each other. Connecting sites by hyperlink provides a nested network from information resources that its extent hypothetically covers the whole web space. In this research, I try to study a hyperlink network which is formed among sites presented by so-called “Filtering Page” at “www.peyvandha.ir” URL. This research aims to study link structure in this networks and recognize key nodes or that of key sites. To do so, after reviewing theoretical foundations of two basic approaches in Webometrics & Hyperlink Network Analysis in the field of social network analysis, I consider a 2370 list of religious-cultural sites presented by filtering page on 5 different sections as an input list for web crawler of SocioBot. The findings indicate that there are just 3 hyperlink networks with very low density in macro level and just 2 key sites in micro level, as well.
Hadi khaniki; Mahya Barekat
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This article aims to study the representation of cultural values in computer games.We conducted a semiotic analysis on three computer games sponsored by three Iranian state organizations. The goal of the research was to investigate how Iranian game makers presented cultural values in the content of the ...
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This article aims to study the representation of cultural values in computer games.We conducted a semiotic analysis on three computer games sponsored by three Iranian state organizations. The goal of the research was to investigate how Iranian game makers presented cultural values in the content of the computer games. With a qualitative approach, we used Roland Barthes’ semiotic method to analyze cultural codes and Philip Tagg’s method to study media signs. The results indicate that the computer games did not use certain game capacities such as interactivity and player-made narrations. In terms of cultural values, the findings show that there is a close relationship between ideological content of the games and the cultural ideologies of the game producing organizations.
