Ali Janadleh; Maryam Rahnama
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The increasing in the use of new media has attracted scholars’ attention to the relationship between those technologies and variant aspects of everyday life and a great number of contradictory perspectives have been postulated regarding implications of new media technologies in relation to families. ...
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The increasing in the use of new media has attracted scholars’ attention to the relationship between those technologies and variant aspects of everyday life and a great number of contradictory perspectives have been postulated regarding implications of new media technologies in relation to families. In our society, the growing use of modern media has also led to significant studies of the impact of these media on families. In this study, we formulate diverse views on the effects of new media on families grounded in three approaches, namely pathological, positive effects and the complexity of effects approach, and consequently, published articles during last decade (2006-2016) were investigated. By utilizing meta-analysis as research method, the articles were scrutinized from various aspects such as theoretical approaches, methodology, research variables and findings. The findings indicated that those articles were mostly focused on pathological approach, and new media was represented as a harmful media. What is more, the complexity of new media effects, the role of variables and mediator factors as well as the role of families in acceptance or rejection of media, and controlling their effects have been overlooked. In this way, a passive image of family’s exposure to such media has been revealed. Ultimately, some suggestions on how to apply substantive theories, specifically in the field of family, mixed methods and longitudinal studies were offered. Moreover, paying serious attention to the influence mechanisms and mediator variables was accentuated in order to grasp the mutual relationship between new media and divergent facets of family.
Mohammad Amin Ghane’irad; Ali Janadleh
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The development of the Internet as a modern communication technology has raised new, important and different issues regarding the relation between this technology and the public sphere. In this paper, based on Habermaus’s theory, we have proposed four fundamental questions about the possibility ...
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The development of the Internet as a modern communication technology has raised new, important and different issues regarding the relation between this technology and the public sphere. In this paper, based on Habermaus’s theory, we have proposed four fundamental questions about the possibility and impossibility of development of the public sphere in the cyberspace in order to prepare a systematic review of the proposed theories. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to distinguish three different views toward the development of virtual public sphere: possibility, impossibility, and conditional nature of the formation of the virtual public sphere. The resultant of these three views is that despite the capacity of the cyberspace for the development of virtual public sphere, there are still important challenges such as the digital divide, polarization, cyberspace fragmentation, anonymity, and loosening of the real social ties. In addition, closer study of the relation between cyberspace and public sphere requires us to avoid technological determinism, and consider the institutional and social contexts and perform comparative studies on different social and institutional contexts
