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In this article we try to examine rap-e-farsi beyond its musical borders. Rap-e-farsi is not reduced to production of music. Based on the Iranian cultural policy and by considering its underground and unofficial characteristic, rap-e-farsi cannot be seen in the official media but the cyberspace so as ...
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In this article we try to examine rap-e-farsi beyond its musical borders. Rap-e-farsi is not reduced to production of music. Based on the Iranian cultural policy and by considering its underground and unofficial characteristic, rap-e-farsi cannot be seen in the official media but the cyberspace so as to fill the gap between itself and its audiences. Then, for rap-e-farsi Instagram is as a platform to reveal itself beyond the usual expectations. In Instagram, we find a lot of uploaded photos which form the visual culture of rap-e-farsi. Iranian city does not allow rap-e-frasi to be seen, thus it has emigrated to the cyber-streets of Instagram. This emigration proves the importance of visual aspect of rap-e-farsi besides its audio part. Therefore, this article analyzes the visualization of rap-e-farsi. We study images from specific popular pages about rap-e-farsi, personal pages of Persian rappers and pages of some audiences who dedicate their pages to beloved rappers. Consequently, the process of image circulation in Instagram managed to production of news and circulation of news which have turned rap-e-farsi into a subject to think and to debate.
azam ravadrad; Golnar Gishnizjani
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The purpose of this study was to identify a variety of body types among Iranian Instagram users. Two main research questions guided the study as I sought to explore 1) What is the dominant pattern of body re-presentation among Iranian Instagram users? 2) What is the strategies, technics and purpose of ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify a variety of body types among Iranian Instagram users. Two main research questions guided the study as I sought to explore 1) What is the dominant pattern of body re-presentation among Iranian Instagram users? 2) What is the strategies, technics and purpose of Iranian Instagram users for re-presentation of body? In order to respond these questions I used combination of dramaturgical approach of Goffman and Butler ideas about gender. I used virtual ethnography and Sade-beck module as a method of the study. I was trying to collect data through deeply semi structured interviews with 26 users, participant observation and analysis of virtual content. Thick description and interpretive analysis were used for analyzing data. Based on obtained data mediated body on Instagram divided to three main types: Social, perfomative and aesthetic body. Each of these types is explained to be divided into smaller categories.
Babak Rahimi; Hossein Kermani; Zohreh Alihoseini; Mohammadmahdi Meshkini
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Nowadays, many Iranians are using smart phones. Also, the digital divide problem remains an important issue in contemporary urban Iran. Thus, doing research into the relation between these variables is necessary to provide a better understanding of the problem. Using Van Deursen and Van Dijk theory, ...
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Nowadays, many Iranians are using smart phones. Also, the digital divide problem remains an important issue in contemporary urban Iran. Thus, doing research into the relation between these variables is necessary to provide a better understanding of the problem. Using Van Deursen and Van Dijk theory, this paper aims to clear if smart phone usage causes some new kinds of digital divide or not. Furthermore, we measured the correlations between some socio-demographical variables with digital divide. We surveyed 273 of Tehran citizens to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses. Finding shows that the main divide occurs in skills acces also there is a divide in material access but. In addition, class and education have the most effect on digital divide. Class affect the all kinds of accesses and education have effect on 2 of them, while other variables such as age, gender and ethnicity don not have significant effect on different levels of access.
alireza abdolahinejad; Javad Sadeghi; Abuzar Ghasemi Nejhad
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The current study examines the effects of the social media, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram on the political participation of the students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections in 2016. We used Cochran test and surveyed 370 students from the 8569 people studying ...
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The current study examines the effects of the social media, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram on the political participation of the students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections in 2016. We used Cochran test and surveyed 370 students from the 8569 people studying on the main campus of the university. The results show that there are significant direct relations between the amount of time spent on the chosen media and the students’ political participation (0.413), trust in the media and the students’ political participation (0.318) and effectiveness in using media and the students’ political participation (0.523). Two other factors including respondents’ education level (-0.401) and age (-0.431) had significant reverse relation with political participation of the students. The results of regression analysis show that five variables including media usage, trust, using effectiveness, educational level and age can predict the students’ political participation by 32 percent.
