Nematolah Fazeli; atefe aghai; masome shafati
Abstract
New interpretations of the concept of health and its approaches have been developed with appearance and rise of post modernism in medical science. Complementary and alternative medicine is one good sample of the therapy methods which match the postmodern interpretations. Due to the lack of existence ...
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New interpretations of the concept of health and its approaches have been developed with appearance and rise of post modernism in medical science. Complementary and alternative medicine is one good sample of the therapy methods which match the postmodern interpretations. Due to the lack of existence of different types of complementary medicine specifically the music therapy in the universities and shortage of music therapy clinics in the Iranian society, we are facing appearance of websites and blogs on the subject of music therapy in the cyberspace. Considering these limitations, the cyberspace has a considerable role in creating an opportunity for the presence of a discourse which is otherwise marginalised.The possibility of the existence in the cyberspace while there is limited chance of presence in the physical world is a sign of post modernism.The limitations of the real world will of course have an effect on the quality of development of music therapy in the Iranian cyberspace. Therefore the following questions are asked that how the music therapy is introduced in the cyberspace, which characteristics of the complementary medicine are more focused on in the introduction of music therapy in the cyberspace and how these characteristics interact with the modern medical science?The research method adopted in this study is the analysis of quality content. The target research society is the Iranian websites active in the field of music therapy. The sampling method is theoretical (targeted) sampling which was undertaken until the theoretical saturation was reached. Study and analysis of the 11 websites under assessment showed that these websites focused on 7 fundamental characteristics of music therapy for its introduction to the audience including the scientific, historical, therapy, empowerment, healthcare benefit, application integrity and globalisation. Music therapy while trying to gain credit by getting close to the modern medical science, competes with it by focusing on some of its other characteristics and dimensions. Although modern medical science is facing some rival discourses in the cyberspace and silent discourses like music therapy have been able to use this space to compete with modern medical science and be present in the health space, what we used to know as complementary medicine has also been revolutionised and affected by the modern medical science.
mohammad ali Tavana; Ssayed Abdullah HashemiAsl
Volume 5, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 15-36
Abstract
Permeable territorial boundaries and shakable autocracies seem to be main characteristics of temporary globalization. This phenomenon is coexistent with recent information revolution; since telecommunication and information project (internet) was able to facilitate connecting every computer all ...
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Permeable territorial boundaries and shakable autocracies seem to be main characteristics of temporary globalization. This phenomenon is coexistent with recent information revolution; since telecommunication and information project (internet) was able to facilitate connecting every computer all over the world to others along with its evolutional trend, without necessarily being limited to any boundaries or governance of states. Therefore, the virtual space is created to provide a frame in which subjects can interact with each other free of existing social norms and structures. On this basis, the present paper addresses the question: How virtual space affects identities of subjects? This article aims to investigate how virtual space alters subjects’ characteristics in identity context. Theoretical framework of the paper is inspired by Goff man's self-presentation theory. Based on this framework, virtual space has provided the subject with an environment to act and present himself – an environment in which a subject carries various social, political and cultural masks. The hypothesis examined by the present study is: meta-territorial virtual space has provided a scene for presenting ideas and semantic characteristics which lead to interactions and contrasts between various cultural ideas. This phenomenon creates a battlefield of identity struggles amongst subjects due to high number of subjects and plethora of communicational lingual actions–however not necessarily Habermasian communicational actions–amongst them; hence causing them to be perplexed. The present paper is of critical analysis type. Also authors try to present solutions to confront identity perplexity of subjects in cyber space.
