saeeid zokaei; Ali Khanmohammadi; Samira Nouri
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The creation of the corona accelerated the "medical dominance" of public opinion by creating a "state of exception". Five hundred videos, photos and text produced by ordinary users of the Instagram network in the days of the pandemic have been reviewed. Relying on semiotics of all these contents, the ...
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The creation of the corona accelerated the "medical dominance" of public opinion by creating a "state of exception". Five hundred videos, photos and text produced by ordinary users of the Instagram network in the days of the pandemic have been reviewed. Relying on semiotics of all these contents, the codes of "forefront, support lines and traitors against Corona" have been obtained. These codes have the signals and meanings of the upper and subaltern. The signs of the "defenders of health", the "martyr of health", the "readiness of the warriors" and the "sacrifice of the medical staff" provide an "epic, sacred and upper" account of the medical staff, especially the female medical staff. The "home front", "people, Organizational and institutions’ struggles" provide a "hopeful, empathetic, supportive and upper narrative" of the fight against disease. But in contrast to the signs of lack of support from the medical staff and the pressure on the medical staff, it presents a "tragic, sad and subaltern" narrative of the days of the epidemic. In this epidemic, medicine dominated of everyday life by health guidelines (such as the identification of vulnerable groups and self-quarantine) and of citizens' memory by the "sacralisation" of medical staff. "Inattentive people" and "Nowruz travelers" are considered enemies and "evil". Popular memory holds "people" more responsible than "government" and "health care system" for the spread of disease. This projection is the result of bio-power and the memory politics that have hidden the roots of the power of medical power-knowledge in Iran.
Mohammad saeeid zokaei; mohammad taghi karami; Shima FarzadManesh
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The ...
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The research is based on a phenomenology approach and thematic analysis of the 800 post from 26 Instagrammer’s pages and their comments. This study aims to understand what are the most important themes represented by women about family roles, the body, consumption and satisfaction, by investigation on the connotation of their photos and captions in pages.Results indicates the following types of themes: first: motherhood and ideal home ; subjectivity coupled with power, Second: representation of male-female identities and identity’s paradoxes, third: representation of satisfaction in the family, conspicuous consumption and beauty . Also the results shows that Instagram has identity and leisure function for women.Data analysis shows that they use the cyberspace to challenge reality of public sphere that has caused be living in a paradoxical life world which makes women neither be objects of male dominance as they are in traditional clichés, nor be sovereign subject who is capable to deconstruct gendered patterns. Rather, they simultaneously have degrees of subjectivity and objectivity that empowers them to ignore some degrees of male dominance or to negotiate them, because there are some possibilities in social media and cyberspace like Instageram.
saeeid zokaei; Mohammad Javad Imani Khoshkhoo
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Regarding that political humor was one of most prevalent communicative themes during the presidential election in 2017, this research aims to answer this question that how political humor is used in most politicized period of time. So we chose two virtual communities in Telegram messenger including extreme ...
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Regarding that political humor was one of most prevalent communicative themes during the presidential election in 2017, this research aims to answer this question that how political humor is used in most politicized period of time. So we chose two virtual communities in Telegram messenger including extreme advocates of two main political parties and analyzed more than 7000 massages of these groups during 30 days up to presidential election in 2017, using the Cyber-Ethnographic method. We have found that humor is utilized in two ways: as a weapon (in semiotic battle and keeping up cognitive distance against opponents) and as a relief (for reducing anxiety and nervous pressure and growing sympathy with insiders). But the main distinction between these groups was implementing Survival humor (laughing at misery) by the reformist one. Also these communicative departure to virtual space has caused changes both in Telegram as a medium (customization based on recipient’s lingual and cultural context) and in logic of politics (because of inherent characteristics of this medium). In fact, we are witness of blending areas (political and nonpolitical, personal and impersonal, sadness and happiness and …).
Mohammad saeeid zokaei; Farzaneh Nezakati Rezapour
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This study was conducted with the aim understanding “mobile digital” lifestyle of students, which we have called “mobital”. Using grounded theory methodology and relying on episodic interviews with students from two top universities (Allameh Tabataba’i and Sharif) in three ...
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This study was conducted with the aim understanding “mobile digital” lifestyle of students, which we have called “mobital”. Using grounded theory methodology and relying on episodic interviews with students from two top universities (Allameh Tabataba’i and Sharif) in three main educational groups (Humanities, Engineering and Basic Sciences), the data were coded with “Nvivo 10”. Contrary to those researches who only highlight the sense of gratification from the use of new ICT’s, the findings reveal that the lived experience of students exposed to mobital devices, is a “paradoxical mixture of satisfaction and dissatisfaction”. Although this experience tends to create “cognitive dissonance” and contradictory feelings towards mobital devices, students have found strategies to handle it. They try to maximize their interests and stay away from its damages with “choosing rationally” exercising more “self-control”. In brief, the findings suggest that the three elements of students, devices and society are jointly construct “mobital lifestyle”. This provides an important case for assessing validity of existing theories and gives us valuable information for future research on new media and students’ lifestyles.
