The effect of puzzle games on the creativity of students

Mohsen Roshanian Ramin; Khadije Aliabadi; Ali Delavar; Hassan Rastegarpoor

Volume 8, Issue 32 , January 2023, , Pages 180-155

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2022.44342.774

Abstract
  Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effect of puzzling computer games on the creativity of elementary school students. Method: In this research, a quasi-experimental design was a pre-test and post-test design with a control group, the statistical population was all elementary school boys in Islamshahr, ...  Read More

Factors Affecting Opinion Leadership of Social Media Users in Creating Social Action

Sholeh Meraji Oskouie; mohamad soltanifar; Ali Delavar

Volume 8, Issue 32 , January 2023, , Pages 384-357

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2022.48867.885

Abstract
  Social media have provided brand-new capacities for affecting users and leading them toward social action. The aim of the current research was to develop a model of factors affecting the opinion leadership of social media users in creating social action. To this end, a correlational design was adopted ...  Read More

Perceived Cybercultural Transgressions and Social Control Means among Iranian Instagram Users

Shalaleh Meraji Oskuie; Kamran Mohamadkhani; Ali Delavar; Ali Akbar Farhangi

Volume 8, Issue 31 , October 2022, , Pages 247-211

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2022.56662.1081

Abstract
  Transgressions (socially non-normative behaviors) and misconducts find a brand-new way of manifestation through online social media. Hence, social control of such behaviors is crucial to assure users’ tranquility and safety and to restrain the contagion of these transgressions into real society. ...  Read More