saeid ghanbary; Soodeh Javadi; davood abdollahi
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Target: Since today, religious content has been widely disseminated on the Internet, and the audience is using it according to the style of their media consumption, this study aimed at studying has been various components on the consumption of religious content based on the concepts of active audience ...
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Target: Since today, religious content has been widely disseminated on the Internet, and the audience is using it according to the style of their media consumption, this study aimed at studying has been various components on the consumption of religious content based on the concepts of active audience approach and the theory of Uses and Gratification. Method: This research was a questionnaire in terms of method, survey and data gathering tool. The mean reliability coefficient of its indices was estimated as 0.76 according to Cronbach's alpha. The sample size was estimated based on Cochran formula 384 and the required information was collected from 385 people by cluster sampling. Findings: The findings of this research showed that there are a direct and significant relationship between the components of answering questions, eliminating doubts, quality of family education, easy access to the media and raising awareness with the amount of religious content consuming. In this regard, based on regression analysis, the components of easy access and awareness raising Arrangements have the most predictive power of the dependent variable.
maryam salimi; Mohammad Soltanifar; Afsaneh Mozaffari; Younes Shokrkhah
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The growing rates of data and the need to use them and the competition to meet the consumers’ needs has driven media towards “Data Journalism”. If its role and significance is understood adequately, it can be used more widely across Iranian media as well. The present research has been ...
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The growing rates of data and the need to use them and the competition to meet the consumers’ needs has driven media towards “Data Journalism”. If its role and significance is understood adequately, it can be used more widely across Iranian media as well. The present research has been conducted aiming to study the role of data journalism in online media and is based on the theory of “Uses and Gratifications”, “Expectation-Utility” and “the Theory of Public Spheres”.Six main issues were studied including the role of data journalism in online media, the definition of data journalism, its future and works related to it, the role of Big Data in the future of data journalism and the media’s interest in utilizing it.The method of study is in-depth interview with 103 data journalism experts. According to the results, the experts have pointed out 11 roles of data journalism including “Journalistic”,“facilitation of interaction of the audience”, “achieving democracy” and “building credibility” roles and have emphasized that considering the tendency in other media to use data journalism, online media has gained more success in doing so. The future of data journalism is deemed positive and expanding and the role of big data is also brought to attention. Supporting the interests of the audience and media, influencing governments and aiding their interactions have been some of data journalism effects. According to the results, data journalism can help the media play its critical role, gain the audience's gratification and help to revive the public sphere.
