Karim Nematiaghdam; Nasim Majidi; Aliasghar Keya
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of modern media in the apparent changes in the Iranian society's culture, which research method was carried out without relying on popular theories and with the Grounded Theory (GT) method. In this method, after explaining ...
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of modern media in the apparent changes in the Iranian society's culture, which research method was carried out without relying on popular theories and with the Grounded Theory (GT) method. In this method, after explaining the elements and features of the message, the relationship between the elements of communication and the background and consequences (or effects) of the communication process can also be addressed in an inferential way. ) Online data culture based on the Likert scale and two methods of decoding by another researcher and member review method were used and analyzed based on the database theory with Glazerian approach. The findings of this research show that the Iranian society has become extroverted due to the expansion of social networks. And virtual social networks are so influential in the appearance of Iranians' lives that people look for superficial issues (such as the role of consumer culture in anthropology, ideological factors, rhetoric and impracticality of reforming consumption patterns, the use of self-made patterns to reform consumption, lack of media planning in promoting and recognizing patterns consumption, the influence of celebrities on mass media, especially Instagram, and the exchange of information by word of mouth) have accepted changes in the type and form of consumption culture day by day. And in conclusion, it is proposed to form an institution for prudent supervision in the space of virtual advertising. The results and findings of the research were such that the Iranian society has become extroverted due to the expansion of social networks. and virtual social networks in the apparent context of Iranian life, people looking for superficial issues, the role of consumer culture in people, as well as ideological factors, the sloganeering and impracticality of reforming consumption patterns, the use of self-made patterns to reform consumption, the media's lack of planning in promoting and recognizing consumption patterns, the influence of celebrities in social media, especially Instagram and exchanging information by word of mouth; It has caused changes in the type and form of consumption culture day by day. And it is obvious that reforming the process of social affairs in this field will not be possible apart from the guidance approach which is based on scientific and applied studies of needs assessment and adapting the current culture to the goals of human development. Research findings show that policymakers should consider consumer control over the information they are exposed to in social networks and Instagram.
The power of the media, both positive and negative, still dominates the representations of people and their concerns. Less time for celebrities, lower costs for product development or promotional products, more creative product ideas, and greater product acceptance were some of the benefits cited, and celebrity endorsement appears to be important when communicating marketing messages. And they have considerable credibility. This shows that it is essential for brands to use Instagram effectively when determining their target audience; They should pay attention to what kind of fame and notoriety can be most effective in attracting a specific target group.
The interviewers indicated that the lower-scale celebrity types were most influential, as these categories were perceived as more believable and relevant to users, especially with regard to purchasing decisions as the products and services they endorsed were more cost-effective for participants. Therefore, in choosing a celebrity, policy makers should focus more on a brand that customers can relate to.
Due to the change of governments, today's government focuses more on Iran's foreign policy and economy. An institution that is necessary to monitor Iranian culture in the country's media to hold this industry responsible for representing Islamic Iranian culture. Although radio and television stations are required to allocate a certain amount of broadcast time to Iranian content with Islamic culture, which is regulated by the Communications and Telecommunications Commission and most of the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation, the products that the most visited Instagram pages in the field of promoting consumer products are usually free of charge. They will support Iranian brand-making companies regarding Iranian consumer products.
As in other countries, young people in Iran care about their style, the only differences they have compared to others is the limitation in appearance and the absence of an organized system to work on consumer products. This system is mostly based on people and their interaction with other groups in the society. They are consumers, importers, personal designers and groups of creative young people who, inspired by global culture, create new trends to create domestic trends that will be more applicable in Iran's situation. Diversity in the age and social position of people and differences in their views lead to diversity in their tastes and classify them in different stages of accepting new trends, and different people in different stages of acceptance follow the same process of accepting innovations, but according to their local conditions. These conditions have caused integration and some changes in the stages of product diversification and its consumption among Iranians. Some people try to choose products and consume them by imitating others in order to achieve social status without paying special attention to their social position. The system offers a variety of products and needs to meet the emerging needs of larger groups of consumers who are mostly young and interested in new products, but our limitations
Keywords: culture, virtual networks, Instagram, consumer goods
Faezeh Taghipour; Haniyeh Naghdi; Reza Ebrahimzadeh Dastjerdi
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1- Introduction
As a novel notion in the new context of human collective life, which guides sustainable human interactions, the culture of citizenship has attracted the attention of many researchers. The citizenship culture has been affected by the concept of culture and citizen throughout history. This ...
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1- Introduction
As a novel notion in the new context of human collective life, which guides sustainable human interactions, the culture of citizenship has attracted the attention of many researchers. The citizenship culture has been affected by the concept of culture and citizen throughout history. This concept used to make sense in the field of law and people's obedience to it; however, it has found an extensive meaning at present. The Internet and social networks are means to disseminate cultural symbols and are regarded as a source of information and awareness in a variety of domains, such as culture, and the factor of creating cultural changes and transformations of the people.
The aspects of the problem have become wider and the significance of the matter has been aggravated with the spread of smart cell phones and the capability of using them for searching social networks such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter, etc., and also the extensive utilization of these networks by people throughout the day and night. Today's social networks have caused persons in these networks to deal with preparing, producing, publishing, and republishing diverse information in different areas. Because of the ever-rising application of these networks, they will influence the citizenship culture of people from all walks of life, and ignoring this issue can impose irreparable losses. Hence, the necessity to study the advantages and disadvantages of these social networks is not a secret. However, regarding the reviews carried out on the previous research, the majority of these studies have examined this topic with different approaches and they have paid less attention to investigating the impacts of social networks on the culture of citizenship. Taking into account the broadness of citizens' use of social networks and their impressions on different dimensions of life, the need for research on these networks is evident. Thus, the current article sought to respond to the question that whether it is possible to propose a model that can upgrade the culture of citizenship using social networks by investigating the role of social networks on citizenship culture.
2- Literature Review
Matani et al. (2019) in a study entitled “Investigation of Using Mass Media and Adherence to Citizenship Culture (Case Study: Citizens over 18 Years Old in Ghaem Shahr City)” using field method, survey technique, and questionnaire instrument concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between using mass media and the total level of adherence to the culture of citizenship and its dimensions, i.e. social participation, generalism, responsibility, the tendency to follow the law.
Ghafarinasab et al. (2019) in a study entitled “Sociological Explanation of Citizenship Culture (Case Study: Citizens 15 Years Above in Eqlid City)” argue that citizenship is one of the important indicators of progress and development in developing countries. One of the dimensions of citizenship is the culture of citizenship. The establishment and extension of citizenship can be seen as a serious way of solving the social problems in developing countries. Using the theories of Marshall, Janoski, Faulks, and Turner, they examine the culture of citizenship among the citizens of Eqlid City. Besides, they exploited the survey as a method and also the questionnaire as an instrument for collecting data. They selected the sample by using a manner called multi-stage cluster sampling. Results demonstrate that the citizenship culture among citizens is about over mean. The examination of the hypothesis indicates that variables such as gender, marital status, the degree of religious commitment, social identity, the extent of using media, and political awareness have a significant relationship with the culture of citizenship.
Askarizadeh (2019) conducted a study entitled “Identifying Social and Educational Factors Affecting the Promotion of Citizenship Culture in the Neighborhoods of Bandar Abbas City” with a descriptive survey-exploratory method using a random cluster sampling method. The sample size also included 458 people. Besides, the questionnaire instrument was exploited in this survey. Of the social factors, awareness of citizenship rights, rule of law and orderliness, collective interests, awareness of external and internal events, responsibility, generalism, use of cultural centers, and use of the media influenced the citizenship culture, respectively. Among the educational factors, legal infrastructure and bylaws, written and specific educational goals, executive structures, the existence of different training courses, acceptance of change among citizens, awareness & capability of officials, innovative management and supportive managers, the ability of citizens, the attitude of officials, the enthusiasm of citizens, incentives, communication between officials and citizens, technical infrastructure, presence of supporting human resources in setting up and supervision affect the citizenship culture, respectively.
3- Methodology
The present study intended to present a model for promoting citizenship culture based on using social networks among citizens of Tehran. This is an applied study by purpose, a cross-sectional study by the data collection time, and a qualitative research design by the procedure. A qualitative method with a grounded theory approach was adopted, and the theoretical sampling method was used. The statistical population of this research included specialists and experts in social networks and citizenship culture (university professors, city managers, etc.) that reached saturation and no additional data were found through conducting a new interview. The open, axial, and selective codes were extracted via analyzing the interviews. On the basis of Corbin & Strauss's grounded theory, the causal conditions, context, intervening conditions, action/interaction strategies, and consequences were then examined and identified. In accordance with the conceptual model, the conditions for the promotion of citizenship culture were eventually specified.
4- Conclusion
Interpreting and analyzing the statistical results revealed that social networks positively and significantly influence the dimensions of citizenship culture and upgrade the culture. Nevertheless, creating some changes and transformations is required in Iran in this regard so that effective performance in the direction of promoting citizenship culture based on social networks can be rendered. Nowadays, with the entry of virtual social networks in the lives of citizens, these networks have been greatly welcome to meet the needs of many people. These networks evidently affect different areas of life such that the consequences arising from the presence of these networks have found ostensible representation and it is undeniable. Furthermore, social networks are impressive to enhance and strengthen social interactions in virtual space and have unparalleled impacts on different aspects of citizens' lives.
Amir hossein Shemshadi; Afsaneh Mozaffari; mohamad soltanifar; Ali Akbar Farhangi
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With the advent of the information age and networked society and the advent of web-based social media and the success of these networks in attracting users, these networks have been able to play a key role in creating different streams and offering different lifestyles. The experience of these two spatializations ...
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With the advent of the information age and networked society and the advent of web-based social media and the success of these networks in attracting users, these networks have been able to play a key role in creating different streams and offering different lifestyles. The experience of these two spatializations and the formation of subcultures appropriate to this space changes people's choices. On the other hand, considering that the social network Instagram is one of the most popular social networks in the world and in Iran, so the purpose of this study is to identify the components of the culture that governs the social network Instagram. This research has a descriptive and survey strategy and since this research is a qualitative research in terms of type,The researcher identified the categories and items of culture in the social network with the help of interviews with experts. In this research, the researcher uses structural analysis method to analyze the data obtained from the interview. According to the data obtained from the interview, the author achieved six cultural components in the social network Instagram, which are; Lack of media literacy, lack of adherence to ethics, extremism, superficiality, participation and assertiveness.
Mohammadsadegh nasrollahi; Mohammad Javad Badinfekr
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چکیدهConcentration on social messengers in cyberspace, has dominated the part of dominant audience of media consumption in the present era. A brief analysis of the communication pattern of users in social messengers shows the usual use of emoji, so that fewer virtual conversations can be found without ...
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چکیدهConcentration on social messengers in cyberspace, has dominated the part of dominant audience of media consumption in the present era. A brief analysis of the communication pattern of users in social messengers shows the usual use of emoji, so that fewer virtual conversations can be found without emoji. The incorrect, vague, and multiple use of emoji, especially in cultures other than their productive culture, raised the question in the minds of the writers about what is the origin of this phenomenon. And how did the cultural difference between the emoji and its consumer use affect the realization of such a phenomenon? In order to address this concern, the main question of the article is that what are the referents and concepts explicit and implicit of social messengers and whether their influence on the cultural and value system of the Western world can be verified?This paper, using the methodology of semiotics and using fellowship and paradigmatic technique, has explored the explicit and implicit cultural meanings derived from selected emoji (23 emoji) in three parts: family, gender, and language. The findings of this paper show that the dominant cultural approach to emoji is pluralism and cultural relativism deriving from modernism and postmodernism. Naturally, these two approaches have led to phenomena such as cultural vacuum, cultural differences, cultural contradictions, cultural confrontation, cultural ambiguity, and cultural dissemination in consumers and audiences. Last, the emphasis is on adopting an active approach by countries to creating native emoji and in line with their culture.
Seyed Kamaleddin Mousavi; samaneh sadat javadi
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Present research is devoted to analys the roll of internet use in occurance of negative habits among internet users. Taking advantage of some cultural theoris of Iranian and non-Iranian theorists, several hypotheses were made and then, theoretical relations stablished among the variables. The statistical ...
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Present research is devoted to analys the roll of internet use in occurance of negative habits among internet users. Taking advantage of some cultural theoris of Iranian and non-Iranian theorists, several hypotheses were made and then, theoretical relations stablished among the variables. The statistical population of the research included all of internet users who visit coffee-nets in Kashan in May 2017, out of which 319 youngsters were selected as the research sample. It should be mentioned that research sample primarily was determined by Cochran calculation formula, and then, respondents were selected through accidential and proportional classified sampling method. Findings showed that the rate of users,s negative habits in Kashan is relatively on the edge of the middle level- not so high and not so low. Independent variables such as the rate of use, the kind of use, and the invironement showed significant relation with the rate of negative habits occurances among users. In this regard, usage rate showed a reverse relation with the rate of negative habits, i.e. the more using internet somehow leads to decrease of some negative habits rate such as non-responsibility, law violation, and lasyness.
mehdi bigdeloo
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Political culture in Iran as a cultural space that manifests the way people relate to the political system has affected in recent decades various phenomena such as revolution, the structure of the political system, government agents, and so on. In this cultural context, the phenomenon of virtual social ...
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Political culture in Iran as a cultural space that manifests the way people relate to the political system has affected in recent decades various phenomena such as revolution, the structure of the political system, government agents, and so on. In this cultural context, the phenomenon of virtual social networking has left many works in recent years. But the phenomenon, and in particular the Twitter and Facebook networks, have been able to affect the political culture of university professors as other historical phenomena as the most exploitative of these two social networks, the issue that the present study aims to answer to a case-to-face approach And at the descriptive-analytical level. This study, using the views of the humanities professors of the universities of eight metropolitan areas of the country in a survey method, and then analyzing the data obtained using the Tao Kendall test, concluded that three functions of development of regulatory capabilities, convergence of social communication and the valuation of Twitter and Facebook The sum of the six components of the eight components of the political culture of political users in Iran has been effective, including all three functions of the critique of the political system; two functions affecting distrust, alienation, and the superiority of religious values and only one function on extremism and self-rule, and extra-judicial behaviors Intellectual absolutism also does not affect these functions.
Mahdokht Boroojerdi Alavi; Hasan Behrouz Khaniki
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This study intends to explore the structure and content of the cultural messages on the website of Allameh Tabataba'i University. As the main question of the research, we are looking for the content and structural characteristics of the textual or visual messages posted on the website. We used quantitative ...
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This study intends to explore the structure and content of the cultural messages on the website of Allameh Tabataba'i University. As the main question of the research, we are looking for the content and structural characteristics of the textual or visual messages posted on the website. We used quantitative content analysis for this goal. The statistical population includes all of the textual and visual messages posted on the website throughout the second 6 months of the year 1393. We did not use sampling in this research and studied the whole population. The results show that the most number of messages were posted in the month of Azar and they were highlighted with pictures. More frequently the pictures are journalistic photos and they are less frequently archive photos. This indicates the activeness of the staff of the website and the fact that the website is kept updated. Graphic designs have been important in informative posters. The cultural deputy and then the students have made the most headlines. Only few stories have covered news on the dean of the university and the head of the Leader’s Office. This shows that the website does not revolve around individuals and the stories are chosen based on their news values. National as well as religious messages have been taken seriously. The main part of the website has been dealing with news and cultural stories. So it can be concluded that it has focused on its central duties and hasn’t gotten involved with trivial issues. Based on the theory of Telic Systems by Parsons, the majority of the messages follow the model of hidden system of organizing and controlling tensions. Among the communication theories, agenda setting is the theory based on which most of the cultural messages have been written. Since the audiences are mostly students, most messages deal with student affairs and cultural activities of the students. Also the messages include informative materials, reports on cultural activities, national and religious occasions and they include Quran verses and religious quotes and stories.
