Mohammad Mehdi Forghani; Mohammad Mehdi Forghani
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This article is looking for the elements of the US media diplomacy toward the Iranian Eleventh Government. For this purpose, the Persian website of Voice Of American was studied using qualitative content analysis in a period of 104 days, from 1st of August, 2014 to 28th of November. The findings show ...
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This article is looking for the elements of the US media diplomacy toward the Iranian Eleventh Government. For this purpose, the Persian website of Voice Of American was studied using qualitative content analysis in a period of 104 days, from 1st of August, 2014 to 28th of November. The findings show that VOA has tried to prepare the public for the negotiations and Tehran’s submission to the wills of the West. It has tried to do so, on one hand by presenting a peaceful and rational image of the West, and on the other hand by showing a strong and serious face against Iran. Moreover, VOA has tried to promote public support for policies compatible with that of the West and promote a critical approach against non-compatible policies. VOA also attempted to promote the idea that the government is incapable of functioning in Iran’s so-called non-democratic structure and claimed that Iran’s tendency to negotiation was because of the effectiveness of the sanctions. VOA painted the situation as Iran’s anti-imperialist approach has failed and the only way to save the Islamic Republic is to adopt a western model and promote relations with the West. VOA introduced the current situation as the best time for peace and for reforming the Iranian political system.
Mohammad Hossein Panahi; Hossein Panahi
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Social capital, which is formed by the network of relationships among human beings, plays a major role in our lives. One of the factors that may affect social capital is how and how much we use information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study investigates how ICT consumption is related to ...
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Social capital, which is formed by the network of relationships among human beings, plays a major role in our lives. One of the factors that may affect social capital is how and how much we use information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study investigates how ICT consumption is related to social capital. To study social capital, we used Coleman’s definition and typology and analyzed the effects of ICTs on social capital from four aspects: information storing, exchanging, transferring and processing devices. We surveyed a random sample of 388 students of Allameh Tabataba’i University and KhajehNasirUniversity in the city of Tehran, Iran. The descriptive findings of the study indicate that the students comply with social norms and laws to a high degree but they tend not to participate in social groups and organizations. Regarding functional aspects of social capital, we found that the students’ generalized and interpersonal trust were rather high. Our main hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between ICT consumption and social capital was verified, although the level of the relationship was rather low.
Mehdi Mohsenianrad; Seyyed Mohammad Kazemi
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Understanding the way other countries react to the phenomenon of satellite television can help Iran improve its policies in this regard. Comparative studies on media policies can help us understand changes and trends in such policies. We used two studies conducted in the Hijri years of 1373 and 1381 ...
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Understanding the way other countries react to the phenomenon of satellite television can help Iran improve its policies in this regard. Comparative studies on media policies can help us understand changes and trends in such policies. We used two studies conducted in the Hijri years of 1373 and 1381 and chose 17 Asian countries using targeted sampling. After conducting a literature review in the field of media policies we draw a trajectory of policy-making. The results show that policy makers in the countries under question considered satellite television channels as (1) a disturbance to local media market and (2) a threat to national interests. These countries adopted two policies: (a) acceptance, which means the government shouldn’t interfere; (b) limiting the free flow of information. Comparing the results of the study with the results of another study which was conducted 21 years ago, we can see than the countries that used to be in the second category have gotten closer to the first one.
Mohammad Rezaei; Maryam Pooraskari
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This study tries to examine the relations between using Facebook and people’s voting behavior in Iran’s presidential election in 2013. Taking a qualitative approach, we used virtual ethnography and observation techniques, as well as in-depth interviews to gather the research data and we used ...
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This study tries to examine the relations between using Facebook and people’s voting behavior in Iran’s presidential election in 2013. Taking a qualitative approach, we used virtual ethnography and observation techniques, as well as in-depth interviews to gather the research data and we used thematic analysis to analyze to gathered data. The results show that for a number of reasons, Facebook played a role in changing people’s minds from not attending the election to taking part in it. The election was the first after the disputed presidential election in 2009 and some people considered voting a taboo. Lack of dialogue and political discussion in Iran’s political and media environment outside Facebook, improved the website’s role. Another reason was the fact that Facebook provided an alternative to the state media. We argue that analyzing the effects of specific social media is only possible if one looks into the country’s political environment and the role of the social media websites in the society. The results show that political arguments may result in increasing people’s level of political information or motivation, but don’t necessarily change their voting behavior.
Farideh Hoseinsabet; Zahra Jahangard; Abdollah Motamedi
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The virtual social networks have become popular among the young generation, one of the most popular networks, Facebook. Infiltration and increase the number of Facebook users among young generation. Unforgivable social networking could affect the quality of the formation of social and family relationships. ...
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The virtual social networks have become popular among the young generation, one of the most popular networks, Facebook. Infiltration and increase the number of Facebook users among young generation. Unforgivable social networking could affect the quality of the formation of social and family relationships. The study aimed to investigate the relation ship between emotional intelligence, attachment styles and family solidarity with the Facebook users . Recent research on high school students in Tehran ( 204 user, user ,no user 103 ) . On being asked showed that 1 ) the predictors of family cohesion and emotional intelligence variables could significantly predict the user and no user , 2) between family cohesion and the use of Facebook, there is a significant negative correlation, 3 ) between the sub scales less family cohesion are tending more towards the use of Facebook and the use of Facebook and there is no attachment styles.
Alireza Dehghan; najibe mohebbi; mahya barekat
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Stickers, as a part of visual communications in the Viber Instant transmitting messages, have become much popular and are now used extensively. It seems expression of emotion through stickers is more convenient than writing for the users. Up to know, we couldn’t find considerable academic research ...
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Stickers, as a part of visual communications in the Viber Instant transmitting messages, have become much popular and are now used extensively. It seems expression of emotion through stickers is more convenient than writing for the users. Up to know, we couldn’t find considerable academic research in the popularity of using stickers and its social consequences in Persian language. The authors of the present paper, to understand the meaning of the stickers in general and the kind of personality they display in particular. Analyzed a sample of ten stickers widely used by the viper instant messaging network users in 1393(Solar calendar). Our findings indicate that the studied stickers promote consumptive life style and reproduce a kind of specular society which is was originally suggested by Guy De Bore in 1960’s. Based on an analysis of a sample of ten stickers repeatedly circulated among Viber instant messaging network a group of predominately white, young, and lavish people in situations like shopping and travelling are passing time. As we understood the most important message of these stickers is excessive enjoyment.
sarvenaz torbati
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The following research is analyzing Facebook communicators as Lacanian subjects. Lacanian subject is not the ‘individual’ or ‘conscious subject’ of Anglo-Amercian Philosophy. The psychoanalytic explanation of Lacanian barred subject leads the research to come up with an analytical ...
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The following research is analyzing Facebook communicators as Lacanian subjects. Lacanian subject is not the ‘individual’ or ‘conscious subject’ of Anglo-Amercian Philosophy. The psychoanalytic explanation of Lacanian barred subject leads the research to come up with an analytical description of scopophilia, love to see and to be seen, of Facebook as a computer-madiated communication. According to the post-structuralism and Lacanian approach using in this research, I will raise tow critical questions: 1- How to see and to be seen, become as a collective phantasy in Facebook? 2- How the Facebook discourse could be explained within the Lacanian hysteria-capitalism discourse? The Facebook users are being analyzed as subjects who are developing their interactions in the scopophilic field of Facebook in order to fulfill their traumatic lack in such a phantasmatic way. The reconstruction of the false identification in an invisible background and the declined satisfaction of subjects that originate from being embraced by frozen images is a significant issue to look at Facebook as a discourse that regenerates hysteric subjects. The penetration of capitalism ideology leads to gaze as an object that is considered as the product of the Facebook discourse.
Meghdad Mehrabi; Alireza Dehghan
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The purpose of this research was to study the significance of creating video gamerating system from Iranian parents’ point of view. To study this significance, westudied extensions of governmental mediation in video game reproduction anddistribution. We also explored the extent of parental supervision ...
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The purpose of this research was to study the significance of creating video gamerating system from Iranian parents’ point of view. To study this significance, westudied extensions of governmental mediation in video game reproduction anddistribution. We also explored the extent of parental supervision on children videogame behavior. Through in-depth interview from 5 parents we extracted commoncategories of parental mediation pattern, parents’ point of view toward video gamerating system, and parents’ point of view toward game effects. Based on extractedcommon categories and literature in parental studies we surveyed 230 parents.One of main results of this study proves that from Iranian parents’ point of view, itis highly essential to create video game rating system. However, they were alsoconcerned with objectivity during formation of any video game rating system. Thereis some incongruence between governmental mediation and parents’ expectations tobe informed on how to mediate in their children’s video game behavior.Due to lack of various mediation mechanisms in Iran, limiting time spent on gamesis the most common pattern in parental mediation. Enthusiastic parental category inpoint of view toward video game rating system is also popular. Most Iranian parentshave a negative view toward video game effects on their children. They also believein the strictest way to prevent all their young children from accessing games withhigher age label.
Hamed Talebian; hadi khaniki
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In cyberspace, a hyperlink from one website into another one is a link that connects various websites into each other. Connecting sites by hyperlink provides a nested network from information resources that its extent hypothetically covers the whole web space. In this research, I try to study a hyperlink ...
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In cyberspace, a hyperlink from one website into another one is a link that connects various websites into each other. Connecting sites by hyperlink provides a nested network from information resources that its extent hypothetically covers the whole web space. In this research, I try to study a hyperlink network which is formed among sites presented by so-called “Filtering Page” at “www.peyvandha.ir” URL. This research aims to study link structure in this networks and recognize key nodes or that of key sites. To do so, after reviewing theoretical foundations of two basic approaches in Webometrics & Hyperlink Network Analysis in the field of social network analysis, I consider a 2370 list of religious-cultural sites presented by filtering page on 5 different sections as an input list for web crawler of SocioBot. The findings indicate that there are just 3 hyperlink networks with very low density in macro level and just 2 key sites in micro level, as well.
nematollah fazeli; mohamad soltanifar; Hojjat Ollah Abbasi
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In addition to producing and publicating information,Social networks are good platforms for organizational management.The Islamic State (ISIS) plans terrorist operations through social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter.The group advances asks such as the recruitment and organization of forces, ...
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In addition to producing and publicating information,Social networks are good platforms for organizational management.The Islamic State (ISIS) plans terrorist operations through social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter.The group advances asks such as the recruitment and organization of forces, planning and implementation of operations, monitoring and control, guidance and leadership, communication and coordination of terrorist operations through telephony in social networks.Twitter and Facebook social networks have goals, benefits and effective performances for the ISIS group .ISIS's goals in these networks include attracting attention, gaining legitimacy and acceptability, identifying, announcing existence and gaining power.Advantages include global audiences, easy access, network power, high speed, horizontal connectivity, inclusive communications, interactive communication, flexible communications and low cost communications.These networks have the informing function, social mobilization and social solidarity for the ISIS terrorist group and advancing its goals on the international scene.This research was conducted to explain the goals, benefits and functions of Twitter and Facebook social networks for the Islamic State's terrorist group with the aim of identifying, controlling and confronting the phenomenon of media terrorism and reducing the damage caused by it.The data of this research have been collected and analyzed through grounded theory and documentary studies.
alireza abdolahinejad; Nooshin Majlesi
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The present study was aimed at examining verbal violence in the comments on popular Iranian Instagram pages. In the initial stage, the official Instagram pages of Iranian celebrities (who lives in Iran) with at least one million followers at the time that the present project was approved were identified. ...
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The present study was aimed at examining verbal violence in the comments on popular Iranian Instagram pages. In the initial stage, the official Instagram pages of Iranian celebrities (who lives in Iran) with at least one million followers at the time that the present project was approved were identified. Then, the followers’ comments were analyzed in terms of verbal violence. In the present study, the Brown and Levinson's politeness theory (1978 & 1987) and the Impoliteness theory by Culpeper (2011) that are focused on the concept of face, and are related to the Goffman's theory of dramaturgy. The qualitative method of thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Finally, analysis of 1500 comments with verbal violence revealed 9 Global themes as follows: Celebrity’s personal and professional life, Welfare, Sexual, Gender, Politics, Religion, Ethnicity and Social concerns. In the next step, a thematic network of the global themes as the main and repeated patterns of the textual data was drawn, and subsequently, two other levels of themes, i.e. the Basic and Organizing themes were categorized, described, and analyzed in 9 tables.
Susna Bastani; hadi khaniki; Saeed Arkanzadeh Yazdi
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The Research Evaluates new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media. It seems that new media in Iran these days deeply effect on mainstream media and even in some cases makes them to lose their functions. This research tries to evaluate new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media’s internal ...
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The Research Evaluates new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media. It seems that new media in Iran these days deeply effect on mainstream media and even in some cases makes them to lose their functions. This research tries to evaluate new media impacts on Iranian mainstream media’s internal mechanisms and also relations between them with the people and with politic and economic powers. New media impacts on mainstream media and their relations with people were evaluated by qualitative survey methodology. Eventually researcher concluded that new media by themselves did not reduce the mainstream media consumption but the tough controls and lack of professionalism in mainstream media were the critical cause of consumption, trustfulness and influence decline so new media rise only has amplified these consequences. In fact, this study found that people have immigrated to new media because of weak mainstream media but they could not entirely alternate with mainstream media.
Mohammad Rezaei; Mehdi Gholamzadeh
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The debate regarding the individuality or collectivity of the Iranian society is still alive among the Iranian scholars and sociologists. But, in these debate and also experimental researches on the individualism or collectivism of Iranian society one will notice that no attention has been paid to virtual ...
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The debate regarding the individuality or collectivity of the Iranian society is still alive among the Iranian scholars and sociologists. But, in these debate and also experimental researches on the individualism or collectivism of Iranian society one will notice that no attention has been paid to virtual social networks. However the participation in the virtual social networks has become an important part of Iranians` everyday life, and so it is necessary to examine collectivism and individualism with regard to these networks. In order to study this topic the following inquiry has been started by examining the networked individualism theory of Barry Wellman (2012) and after redefining of the concept, we have made a scale for measuring it. Therefore, one of the innovations in this study is creating a scale for this concept. The results showed that networked individualism exists at a moderate level. Also, the new findings suggest that familism, as a public culture of Iranian society in virtual networks also plays a significant role. Finally, it can be said that the networked individualism`s scale developed in this research, which has happened for the first time, can be a sufficient tool for the study of individualism in cyberspace that needs to be rectified and measured.
Ali Janadleh; Maryam Rahnama
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The increasing in the use of new media has attracted scholars’ attention to the relationship between those technologies and variant aspects of everyday life and a great number of contradictory perspectives have been postulated regarding implications of new media technologies in relation to families. ...
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The increasing in the use of new media has attracted scholars’ attention to the relationship between those technologies and variant aspects of everyday life and a great number of contradictory perspectives have been postulated regarding implications of new media technologies in relation to families. In our society, the growing use of modern media has also led to significant studies of the impact of these media on families. In this study, we formulate diverse views on the effects of new media on families grounded in three approaches, namely pathological, positive effects and the complexity of effects approach, and consequently, published articles during last decade (2006-2016) were investigated. By utilizing meta-analysis as research method, the articles were scrutinized from various aspects such as theoretical approaches, methodology, research variables and findings. The findings indicated that those articles were mostly focused on pathological approach, and new media was represented as a harmful media. What is more, the complexity of new media effects, the role of variables and mediator factors as well as the role of families in acceptance or rejection of media, and controlling their effects have been overlooked. In this way, a passive image of family’s exposure to such media has been revealed. Ultimately, some suggestions on how to apply substantive theories, specifically in the field of family, mixed methods and longitudinal studies were offered. Moreover, paying serious attention to the influence mechanisms and mediator variables was accentuated in order to grasp the mutual relationship between new media and divergent facets of family.
ashraf karimi rahjerdi; Abdolali ghavam; raha kharazi azar; ali geranmayepour
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This research examines the role of mobile-based media in shaping collective wisdom. In this qualitative study, using content analysis approach, the statistical community of university professors and experts were selected through purposeful sampling. A semi-structured, deep-seated interviewing tool that ...
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This research examines the role of mobile-based media in shaping collective wisdom. In this qualitative study, using content analysis approach, the statistical community of university professors and experts were selected through purposeful sampling. A semi-structured, deep-seated interviewing tool that went into saturation. Most collective community members considered collective and participatory decisions based on value system and reference experiences with the ability to recognize and understand the general group of human about common issues, which is the result of the synergy of understanding and recognition of the group in a participatory relationship, and the indicator Such as collective participation based on the collective interest based on collective wisdom with regard to social sensitivity and collective behavior, with regard to reference experiences and value system, and special attention to common culture and language and history, and the generalization of the dialectic of reason and excitement in the community in the direction of social profit And participated in it, and stated that mobile-based media were the cause The low cost, the spread of freedom of expression, the localization of public opinion, and the possibility of spreading public opinion through the direct participation of citizens, and the platform for the reflection of social and economic realities without censorship, without prejudice, and giving equal opportunity to supporters and opponents For commenting, it has been made to take a step towards the formation of a collective wisdom.
Ahmadreza motamedi
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Exposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch ...
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Exposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious ArtExposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious Art
hadi khaniki; Hossein Kermani
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Alongside with the advent and proliferation of internet usage in societies, more debates on the potentials of internet in reviving or reshaping the public sphere or even creating a new one has aroused. Thus, this paper is trying to evaluate if a micro public sphere is shaped in a Telegram group where ...
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Alongside with the advent and proliferation of internet usage in societies, more debates on the potentials of internet in reviving or reshaping the public sphere or even creating a new one has aroused. Thus, this paper is trying to evaluate if a micro public sphere is shaped in a Telegram group where Iranian journalist had discussed the requirements and conditions for establishing a professional association. Telegram is the most popular Instant Messaging Application in Iran now, and its groups provide a very convenient space for discussions and conversations. That is why numerous groups are created to enable people to participate in public and (potentially) free discussions. In September 2016, when some Iranian journalist tried to establish a professional association for Tehran-based journalists, a group in Telegram was created which attracted more than 600 members at that time. The announced purpose of the group was exploring the circumstances and providing helpful suggestions for those working to prepare the statute of the association. Thus, using a triangulation of three methods, we tried to achieve a close reading of messages in the group (we analyzed 1117 messages from the beginning before the theoretical saturation was achieved). We identified 5 different kinds of conversations: simple, empathy, non-challenging, challenging, and hostile. Findings showed that the members’ actions in some cases can be seen as communicative rather than instrumental or strategic. Results also indicated that as debates got more hostile, many of public sphere’s norms were violated.
saeeid zokaei; Mohammad Javad Imani Khoshkhoo
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Regarding that political humor was one of most prevalent communicative themes during the presidential election in 2017, this research aims to answer this question that how political humor is used in most politicized period of time. So we chose two virtual communities in Telegram messenger including extreme ...
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Regarding that political humor was one of most prevalent communicative themes during the presidential election in 2017, this research aims to answer this question that how political humor is used in most politicized period of time. So we chose two virtual communities in Telegram messenger including extreme advocates of two main political parties and analyzed more than 7000 massages of these groups during 30 days up to presidential election in 2017, using the Cyber-Ethnographic method. We have found that humor is utilized in two ways: as a weapon (in semiotic battle and keeping up cognitive distance against opponents) and as a relief (for reducing anxiety and nervous pressure and growing sympathy with insiders). But the main distinction between these groups was implementing Survival humor (laughing at misery) by the reformist one. Also these communicative departure to virtual space has caused changes both in Telegram as a medium (customization based on recipient’s lingual and cultural context) and in logic of politics (because of inherent characteristics of this medium). In fact, we are witness of blending areas (political and nonpolitical, personal and impersonal, sadness and happiness and …).
Mohammad Mohesn; Hovra Hoomani
Mohammad saeeid zokaei; mohammad taghi karami; Shima FarzadManesh
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The ...
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The research is based on a phenomenology approach and thematic analysis of the 800 post from 26 Instagrammer’s pages and their comments. This study aims to understand what are the most important themes represented by women about family roles, the body, consumption and satisfaction, by investigation on the connotation of their photos and captions in pages.Results indicates the following types of themes: first: motherhood and ideal home ; subjectivity coupled with power, Second: representation of male-female identities and identity’s paradoxes, third: representation of satisfaction in the family, conspicuous consumption and beauty . Also the results shows that Instagram has identity and leisure function for women.Data analysis shows that they use the cyberspace to challenge reality of public sphere that has caused be living in a paradoxical life world which makes women neither be objects of male dominance as they are in traditional clichés, nor be sovereign subject who is capable to deconstruct gendered patterns. Rather, they simultaneously have degrees of subjectivity and objectivity that empowers them to ignore some degrees of male dominance or to negotiate them, because there are some possibilities in social media and cyberspace like Instageram.
Hadi Khaniki
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This article is a review of the trajectory of the concept of communication through academic teachings in Iran. First studies in this field were based on the two terms of “mass communication means” and “media”. The first was accepted by late Dr. Mo'tamed-Nezhad and the latter was ...
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This article is a review of the trajectory of the concept of communication through academic teachings in Iran. First studies in this field were based on the two terms of “mass communication means” and “media”. The first was accepted by late Dr. Mo'tamed-Nezhad and the latter was accepted by late Dr. Majid Tehranian. This difference in the choosing of the words did not come solely from a difference on the hardware and the communication technologies; it’s also related to social aspects of language and the way terms are filled with meanings. The word equivalent to “media” in Farsi was filled with meanings that didn’t exist in Farsi before. The study uses the related history and documents to explore the evolution of the concepts through the works of Mo'tamed-Nezhad and Tehranian who were both the founders of communication studies in Iran. Referring to the foundation of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and the launch of the quarterly journal of “New Media Studies”, I will discuss the new expectation from the science of communication and the new media. I will do a comparative historical work to argue that in the study of new media, both hardware and software evolutions in the field of media and communication should be considered.
seyed mohamad mahdizadeh taleshi; eghbal khaledian; mehrave ferdosi
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The main purpose which this article follows, is comparative studying on the role of “telegram” as a social network and broadcasting media “IRIB” in advertising about the 12th presidential election. For achieving to this goal, we referred to the ideas of skillful professors and ...
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The main purpose which this article follows, is comparative studying on the role of “telegram” as a social network and broadcasting media “IRIB” in advertising about the 12th presidential election. For achieving to this goal, we referred to the ideas of skillful professors and the votes of experts who have cognition about “telegram”, as a new phenomenon. The first result indicates that the user of internet is “very much”, and the measure of using the “telegram” is “much”. I mean not as much as internet but it is much more than others. However, the reasons for using the social channel of “telegram” as the experts said was getting information, data and also getting the recent political and social news. Meanwhile, the researchers have studied on the important recent issue “the 12th presidential elections” and they compered the role of “IRIB” and “telegram” in attracted the attentions of user of telegram and the TV audience. The demonstrative results show that there is a connote (semantic)connection between watching the animations and videos via telegram and the number of people taking part in presidential elections. Among the different functions of “telegram” being on line. Being having accessible and having high speed and spreading the candidates’ messages in election, there is a specific connection. At last, it is suggested that we should think on using telegram as a devise to serve for IRIB not think of it is a threatening device, and we change this threaten to an ideal chance for a future schedule(preview).
Kamran Farajzadeh; Mohamadtaghi Taghavifard; Abbas Toloie Ashlaghi; Alireza Rashidi Komayjan
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AbstractIntroduction:Today, many fields of research and business deal with the thoughts, images and mental patterns of their users and audiences. Knowing and being aware of the way of thinking of people, customers and audiences of a collection has a great impact on making appropriate decisions by the ...
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AbstractIntroduction:Today, many fields of research and business deal with the thoughts, images and mental patterns of their users and audiences. Knowing and being aware of the way of thinking of people, customers and audiences of a collection has a great impact on making appropriate decisions by the managers of that collection, in order to advance the goals and solve various problems. One of the important requirements of managers in any collection is to have sufficient knowledge of how they think about the collection and its performance. This helps them guide the group properly and make appropriate decisions in the way of advancing its goals. Therefore, collecting data from customers should be done with measured and accurate methods to achieve high quality information and obtain valid results. This research, by raising the question of "how can you use the analysis of people's feelings to find out how they think about a certain issue?", tries to provide a new approach on the platform of the Twitter social network to obtain reliable and high-quality information from people in relation to a certain topic. The purpose of the current research is to provide a new approach to collect data from people, in order to measure their perception about a specific issue. It will also examine the impact of the presented method on the speed, quality and cost of collecting data from people using a case study approach.Materials and Methods:In this research, their comments on the social network Twitter were used to check the satisfaction of users of three internet taxi applications in Iran, namely Snap, Tapsi, and Carpino. The data collection approach used in this research was descriptive, with results used by users, managers, and researchers. The research population consisted of all users of the three applications and members of the Twitter social network who had published their thoughts about these applications. The research collected and analyzed a total of 682 relevant tweets cross-sectionally during the summer of 1400 using the Twitter application interface and related hashtags. The analysis steps included data collection, pre-processing of tweets - including linguistic, sentiment, and thematic analysis, followed by sentiment analysis.Discussion and Results:The comparison of the analysis results from this research to the face-to-face interview method showed that the participation of respondents was challenging, and the traditional field method came with its own disadvantages. However, this method is able to overcome those issues and provide reliable results at a lower cost and time. Moreover, the results obtained from analyzing the data collected were similar to the results obtained through the face-to-face interview method, which speaks to the accuracy and quality of the data. Overall, the proposed method can provide valuable insights into people's thoughts and opinions on a particular topic, at a lower cost and time.Conclusions:The proposed method can be widely applicable to various fields, including business, research, and even everyday life. Managers, researchers, and business owners can use it to collect data and insights from their target audience, which can be analyzed to make informed decisions. Further development of the method can lead to even more useful and accurate reports, helping individuals and businesses stay ahead of their competitors. All students and researchers dealing with data collection can use this method to conduct their studies more effectively. Additionally, market research companies can use it to gain valuable feedback from consumers, informing their next steps in providing products and services.Overall, the applications of this research are far-reaching, and it provides a valuable resource for individuals and organizations looking to better understand their audience.Keywords: Sentiment analysis, text mining, how people think, Twitter, Internet taxi.
Mohammad Taghi Abbasi Shavazi; Parvin Abbasi Atashgah
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Along with different and deep problems that the contemporary family has challenged in Iran, Internet penetration and use of modern communication technologies in the family have made these problems and challenges more complex and obscure. The challenges which are to some extent rooted in the transformation ...
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Along with different and deep problems that the contemporary family has challenged in Iran, Internet penetration and use of modern communication technologies in the family have made these problems and challenges more complex and obscure. The challenges which are to some extent rooted in the transformation of family relations in Iran. This research was conducted to study the relationship between the use of modern communication technologies and family relations.The study population was Shiraz high school students from all 10 city regions. Using classified random sampling method, 400 students were selected and responded to the questionnaire. The theoretical framework of this study is a combination of the "networked family" and the "family boundaries" theories. One of the innovations in this research is the use of two mediating variables called family time and family network, which has been inspired by the theoretical framework. Generally, the results of this research indicate that there is no direct relationship between the type and extent of the use of new technologies of communication with family relations, but this relationship is realized through the path of mediating variables, namely, the time of family and family network. Finally, Family time and family network variables have a positive effect on family relationships, with a beta of 0.473 and 0.273, and in general they are able to explain 30% of the family relationship variable.
yousef khojir; hadi khaniki
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This paper identifies the capacities and challenges of virtual social networks in the development of civil society in Iran and the attitudes of civil activists in Tehran about them. This study was a blended method and its method was deep interviewing and scrolling. The statistical population in the qualitative ...
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This paper identifies the capacities and challenges of virtual social networks in the development of civil society in Iran and the attitudes of civil activists in Tehran about them. This study was a blended method and its method was deep interviewing and scrolling. The statistical population in the qualitative section of academic scholars and civil and party activists, among them 27, were selected through targeted sampling and a small portion of civil activists in Tehran, among which 384 were selected by simple random sampling. The findings show that experts have 16 capacities and 12 challenges for social networks in developing or weakening civil society. The discovery of equality, the possibility of dialogue, disclosure, the establishment of a communication link, the reduction of the cost of civil activities, freedom to exchange information, defend civil society, introduce abnormal civic behaviors, coverage, strengthening social capital, increasing the power of choice, including capacities. weakness of professional use, filtering policy, false civil demands, the existence of a state of government monitoring and control, the expansion of cyberspace problems to civil society, they are among the challenges. Among these cases, the civil activists in Tehran have the most important capacity for civil society networks to attract people to networks, easy access to citizens, and categorize their views and reduce the cost of civil activities. And the most important challenge is the weakness of professional use, filtering policies, and the dissemination of false civil claims.
