The Iranian Eleventh Government and the US Media Diplomacy: Analyzing the Scopes and Frames of the Content of VOA Persian Website

Mohammad Mehdi Forghani; Mohammad Mehdi Forghani

Volume 1, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 1-30

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2015.4520

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The Relation Between ICTs and Social Capital

Mohammad Hossein Panahi; Hossein Panahi

Volume 1, Issue 3 , October 2015, , Pages 1-42

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2015.4592

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

A Comparative Study on the Media Policies of Asian Countries While Encountering with Satellite Televisions

Mehdi Mohsenianrad; Seyyed Mohammad Kazemi

Volume 1, Issue 4 , January 2016, , Pages 1-58

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2015.4812

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Facebook and Voting Behavior: an Analytical Approach to Iran’s Presidential Election in 2013

Mohammad Rezaei; Maryam Pooraskari

Volume 2, Issue 5 , April 2016, , Pages 1-32

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.7003

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The relationship between emotional intelligence, attachment style and family cohesion on Facebook Users

Farideh Hoseinsabet; Zahra Jahangard; Abdollah Motamedi

Volume 2, Issue 6 , December 2016, , Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2016.7169

Abstract
  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. ...  Read More

the study of Viber's Stikers and semiology of their ideologies

Alireza Dehghan; najibe mohebbi; mahya barekat

Volume 2, Issue 7 , November 2016, , Pages 1-33

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.19024.163

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The Scopophilic communication on Facebook: Hysteria Discoures and Lacanian Fantasy

sarvenaz torbati

Volume 2, Issue 8 , March 2017, , Pages 1-40

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.12405.70

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Study of Parental Mediation Strategies in Childrens' Game playing: Necessity of Game Rating Systems

Meghdad Mehrabi; Alireza Dehghan

Volume 3, Issue 9 , May 2017, , Pages 1-29

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.18630.158

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Hyperlink Network Analysis of Iran’s Cultural & Religious Sites in Cyberspace

Hamed Talebian; hadi khaniki

Volume 3, Issue 11 , October 2017, , Pages 1-33

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.20683.192

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The Advantages and functions of social networks for terrorist groups (Case Study: ISIS on Twitter and Facebook)

nematollah fazeli; mohamad soltanifar; Hojjat Ollah Abbasi

Volume 3, Issue 12 , January 2017, , Pages 1-30

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2018.17604.138

Abstract
  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, ...  Read More

verbal violence in the comments on popular Iranian Instagram pages

alireza abdolahinejad; Nooshin Majlesi

Volume 4, Issue 13 , April 2018, , Pages 1-61

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2018.30296.449

Abstract
  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. ...  Read More

The People, Mainstream Media and New Media Consuming Survey of Media Consumption, Trust, Satisfaction and Participation of Tehran Citizens

Susna Bastani; hadi khaniki; Saeed Arkanzadeh Yazdi

Volume 4, Issue 14 , August 2018, , Pages 1-33

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2018.24151.274

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

An analysis of Individualism in Virtual Social Networks

Mohammad Rezaei; Mehdi Gholamzadeh

Volume 4, Issue 15 , November 2018, , Pages 1-33

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2018.28108.379

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The Pathological Representation of New Media in Family Studies (a Meta-Analysis of Articles Regarding the Effect of New Media on Family)

Ali Janadleh; Maryam Rahnama

Volume 4, Issue 16 , January 2018, , Pages 1-40

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2019.34873.562

Abstract
  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. ...  Read More

The role of mobile-based media on the formation of collective wisdom

ashraf karimi rahjerdi; Abdolali ghavam; raha kharazi azar; ali geranmayepour

Volume 5, Issue 17 , June 2019, , Pages 1-34

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2019.35186.575

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Exposure of the Siegfried Kracauer and Roger Scruton Theories in Essence of the Representation of the Film Media with Appraoch to the Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of Religious Art

Ahmadreza motamedi

Volume 5, Issue 18 , November 2019, , Pages 1-30

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2019.40113.693

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

The study of public sphere and communicative action on Telegram: Applying Habermas' notions on Iranian journalists conversations

hadi khaniki; Hossein Kermani

Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2019, , Pages 1-33

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2020.29762.422

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Relief or Weapon: The Cyber-Ethnography of Political Humor in Presidential Election in 2017

saeeid zokaei; Mohammad Javad Imani Khoshkhoo

Volume 5, Issue 20 , January 2020, , Pages 1-36

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2020.39016.661

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Representation of women’s everyday family life on Instagram

Mohammad saeeid zokaei; mohammad taghi karami; Shima FarzadManesh

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2020, , Pages 1-52

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2021.51251.944

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Revisiting Communication in Iran: From the Concept of “Media” and “Mass Communication Means” to “New Media Studies”

Hadi Khaniki

Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2015, , Pages 3-27

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2015.4498

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

the role of “telegram” as a social network in advertising about the 12th presidential election Iran

seyed mohamad mahdizadeh taleshi; eghbal khaledian; mehrave ferdosi

Volume 3, Issue 10 , August 2017, , Pages 9-42

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2017.22793.247

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Sentiment Analysis Based on Text Mining in Twitter Social Network in Order to Understand People's Thinking

Kamran Farajzadeh; Mohamadtaghi Taghavifard; Abbas Toloie Ashlaghi; Alireza Rashidi Komayjan

Volume 9, Issue 34 , August 2023, , Pages 32-1

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2023.69807.1453

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Internet, Networked Family and Family Time: Howe new communication technologies Influence family relations?

Mohammad Taghi Abbasi Shavazi; Parvin Abbasi Atashgah

Volume 4, Issue 14 , August 2018, , Pages 33-65

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2018.29865.424

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More

Capabilities and Challenges of Virtual Social Networking for Iranian Civil Society

yousef khojir; hadi khaniki

Volume 5, Issue 17 , June 2019, , Pages 35-69

https://doi.org/10.22054/nms.2019.37923.638

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More