Somayeh Rasouli; Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
Abstract
For more than two decades psychologists and sociologists have been warning about the damages of new social media. In the last decade, neurological research has been developed to provide an empirical foundation to support the above hypothesis. Researchers hold that a significant contribution to the adolescent ...
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For more than two decades psychologists and sociologists have been warning about the damages of new social media. In the last decade, neurological research has been developed to provide an empirical foundation to support the above hypothesis. Researchers hold that a significant contribution to the adolescent trend plays a significant role in the tendency of individuals toward social media. The three parts of the brain, namely the "social cognition network," the "self-referential cognition network" and the "reward network", are worth mentioning of individuals to social media. The reward mechanisms that have been defined in the media and the neurological changes of the brain during adolescence, cause more stimulation and activity in the three regions. On the other hand, loneliness, depression, and memory weakness are one of the most important injuries of social media in addition to the changes of the brain in adolescence, it also goes back to the influence of peers and the media multitasker. In this paper, after examining the neuroscience of some of the most important harms of social media and its roots, we show that this research is accompanied by limitations, but these limitations do not undermine the validity of the results of the research field.
fatemeh masdari; Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
Volume 8, Issue 2 , May 2019, , Pages 189-212
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This research attempts to explain the nature of "new media", to describe their features and to compare them withtraditional media.Considering the increasing coexistence of humans with the new media, today, it is very essential to understand their nature. The results of this descriptive- analytical study ...
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This research attempts to explain the nature of "new media", to describe their features and to compare them withtraditional media.Considering the increasing coexistence of humans with the new media, today, it is very essential to understand their nature. The results of this descriptive- analytical study showed that due to the distinct and emerging features ofthe new media, theycan be distinguished from other media;consequently,they havecreated new concepts and meanings and have deeply influenced all aspects of contemporary human life.Obviously,conducting any kind offuturology, management, interaction and monitoring or optimization of the modern media requires their identification
Meysam Omidali; Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2013, , Pages 25-37
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Criticizing and discussing media technology theories which are predominant in Para-Communicational literature, would help media scholars to better understand the nature of modern media. Although instrumentalism is an outdated approach in epistemological studies of media, it is still applied in communication ...
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Criticizing and discussing media technology theories which are predominant in Para-Communicational literature, would help media scholars to better understand the nature of modern media. Although instrumentalism is an outdated approach in epistemological studies of media, it is still applied in communication theories. Determinism in different forms such as technological autonomy, technological necessity, technical evolutionism, and media technologies as the only cause of all social changes has simply remained as a claim. However, there are some determinists who reject the ultimate importance and influence of media technologies and do consider some roles for media spaces, too. Social structuralism as the latest post-determinism theory, tries to shed light on ambiguities and exaggerations which were presented by instrumentalism and determinism supporters, during the last century; moreover, it confirms the influence of technology on society and asserts that media technologies have emerged from a social historical context. This paper criticizes two main paradigms in communication studies and emphasizes on social structuralism as an alternative theory.
