Taher Roushandel arabtani; kobra Samadi; saeid ghanbary
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The growth of millions of online consumer users and the efforts by media owners to attract their attention to the web have highlighted the need to test the usability of the news site. This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating and comparing the usability of the "BBC Persian news" websites ...
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The growth of millions of online consumer users and the efforts by media owners to attract their attention to the web have highlighted the need to test the usability of the news site. This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating and comparing the usability of the "BBC Persian news" websites and the "Islamic Republic of Iran News Network " using a survey method. The statistical population of this study was from the students of the academic year 2016-2017 of Tehran University. 201 of them were selected according to the Cochran formula as a sample population and through multistage cluster sampling for participation in the research. The "semantic difference" technique was used to investigate the purpose of the research and data collection was done using the QUIS standard questionnaire based on the Azgood spectrum. The findings of this study showed that, from the sum of usability privileges, The "Persian BBC" is 71.42% and the "Islamic Republic of Iran News" Network is 48.48%. Also, respondents' opinion in the six sections, "The overall feeling of the site", "terms used and provided information", "learning", "website capabilities", "linking the site with the user" and "page page", indicate the success of the "BBC" website compared to the website of the "Islamic Republic of Iran News Network".
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Fatemah Azimifard; Siavash Salavatian; Alireza Emad-Addin
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Selecting a proper photo for news in websites has always been emphasized. Because it’s the photo of the news that persuades or discourages the audience to continue reading. The photo also shapes basic understanding of news. The present study was conducted to compare news contents with news photos, ...
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Selecting a proper photo for news in websites has always been emphasized. Because it’s the photo of the news that persuades or discourages the audience to continue reading. The photo also shapes basic understanding of news. The present study was conducted to compare news contents with news photos, in the three news websites: IRNN, Al-Alam and Press-TV. Using semiotic analysis of Peirce, the researchers tried to find out the semiotic elements of pictures. Kress & van leeuwen pattern for Critical Discourse Analysis of photos and semiotic analysis of Barthes has been used also. Thus, 30 news from these three websites, during a two-month period (Azar And Dey 1394 (22 November 2015 to 20 January 2016() was examined. Results of the analysis show that Press-TV had the best performance among three websites in choosing relevant photos for texts. Furthermore, in 16 news proper relationship between the photo and the text exist and in 8 news, there were no relationship.
