Raika Khorshidian; Hedayat Sookhakian; Vahid Choopankareh; Alireza Ajdari; Jamshid Emami
Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 73-89
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This historical – interpretive research, aims to classify the visual data over the 60s, 70s and 80s SH in order to provide an answer whether "there is a meaningful relationship between the media and clothing styles in the society".
If we consider fashion as a powerful tool for cultural ...
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This historical – interpretive research, aims to classify the visual data over the 60s, 70s and 80s SH in order to provide an answer whether "there is a meaningful relationship between the media and clothing styles in the society".
If we consider fashion as a powerful tool for cultural dissemination especially among the young; hence, there is a cultural dialogue between fashion and media. Gradually, with the growth of media in the society, the clothing style -as an identification media- would depend on more diverse and complex issues. As a result, the control of clothing styles is beyond the power of a single media owner, and it requires the sum of numerous media policies to shape the directions of fashion.This research with the aim of promoting the public culture reveals the importance of intentional interference in shaping the fashion streams by investigating the media altering processes.
Masoumeh Talebi Dalir; Hossein Akbari
Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 123-150
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The present study examines relation between media types and consumerism. We studied 358 participants above 18 years of age from Tehran city by survey method.
In this research, the impact of “the use of media types”, “the use of program types”, “Iranian following media reference ...
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The present study examines relation between media types and consumerism. We studied 358 participants above 18 years of age from Tehran city by survey method.
In this research, the impact of “the use of media types”, “the use of program types”, “Iranian following media reference group” and “foreigner following media reference group” on “consumerism” were considered.
Results indicate that, in the media types, “satellites” and “internet” have the most effect on consumerism. In the types of media programs, “dance” and “music” show the most effect on consumerism. Therefore, “Iranian following media reference group” doesn’t have significant effect on consumerism. But “foreigner following media reference group” shows significant and increasing effect on consumerism
Mehdi Baqeri Hashi; Morteza Javidkar; Mohsen Aghamohammad
Volume 3, Issue 1 , September 2013, , Pages 29-58
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Accurate and correct identification of the threats of the enemy's hostile media networks and development of appropriatestrategies to deal with them play an affective and important roleinneutralizing the activities of Iran's enemies. Beside swasting time, energy and human resources, any delay in taking ...
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Accurate and correct identification of the threats of the enemy's hostile media networks and development of appropriatestrategies to deal with them play an affective and important roleinneutralizing the activities of Iran's enemies. Beside swasting time, energy and human resources, any delay in taking actions in this regard will have dangerous and detrimental effects. This study investigates the role of the Voice of America satellite network in advancing the goals of the USA in the Islamic Republic of Iran during 2009 – 2011. The main question in this study is about the role of the Voice of America satellite network in advancing the US goals in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Accordingly, different dimensions and the roles which the network plays in advancing the US goals in our country are referred to. The hypothesis is that the Voice of America media network provides the grounds for advancing the US goals against Iran by highlighting the conflicts concerning the nuclear program, human right sandterrorism and problems caused by sanctions.
Ali Reza Mansouri
Volume 2, Issue 1 , September 2012, , Pages 49-72
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The present article deals with the question of whether advertising and media technology have a power beyond reason or power of human will and if they have some sort of manner of their own? Does technology serve human purposes or advertising media will determine the goals and objectives? In summary and ...
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The present article deals with the question of whether advertising and media technology have a power beyond reason or power of human will and if they have some sort of manner of their own? Does technology serve human purposes or advertising media will determine the goals and objectives? In summary and technical words are the technology, media and advertising autonomous? To answer this question, the content and the views of Heidegger's arguments (M. Heidegger) and Borgmann (A. Borgmann) and Ellul (J. Ellul), the general philosophy on technology has been introduced, in particular in the field of technology and advertising industry review will be cleared and finally ends with a critical assessment of the perspective of technological autonomy enthusiasts.
Abdolrahman Hasanifar; Elahe Abolhasani
Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2012, , Pages 21-47
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Providing norms and patterns, media create theoretical and practical coordination, harmony, and similarity among individuals of the society. In other words, it should be noted that since, today, individuals of the society are widely in relation to the media, think through them, know the world by them, ...
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Providing norms and patterns, media create theoretical and practical coordination, harmony, and similarity among individuals of the society. In other words, it should be noted that since, today, individuals of the society are widely in relation to the media, think through them, know the world by them, and organize their conducts on the basis of patterns taken from media, apart from media role which has been already noted, TV enjoys a particular and main place in the Iranian society. And this has been taken as a basis to focus on it as a context in which the subject matter of the article has become operational; since, today, TV is powerfully present in all homes, and this is due to its attractiveness. One of the issues concerning the functional nature of TV concerns the field of critique. Critique may be presented in various forms in TV. One of the manifestations of crystallization of critique in TV is sessions of debate. In this regard, it should be noted that to attain a goal, knowledge of its nature is of overriding importance. Concerning debate in TV as well, understanding of critique at the first step and knowledge of TV capability and capacity in the field of its methods, including debate, is of paramount importance. In this article, based on accumulative and cognitive theoretical models on the basis of the framework, the role played by TV while explaining the concept of critique, issues concerning it, and methods of debate as an informing instrument have been discussed. Findings based on specialized and documentary study made through an inferential and analytic approach shows at first necessity of knowledge of critique. In other words, a "critique" may be considered as critique which relates to the foundations and results of an issue; otherwise, it is not a critique. On the other hand and in the next step, debate as a channel and origin to operationalize the critique should be directed to a certain and particular issue while taking into account characteristics and components of the theory of critique based in the role played by TV as an informing instrument in the public field and to preserve public interests.
Seyyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji; Zahra Reismirzai
Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2012, , Pages 49-65
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"Philosophy of media" is a term with a history almost more than ten years. Hansen, Hartman, and Sandbothe are among those who have employed and discussed the term positively or critically. Some others such as Debray, Mark Taylor, and Walter Benjamin have spoken of mediology instead of the philosophy ...
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"Philosophy of media" is a term with a history almost more than ten years. Hansen, Hartman, and Sandbothe are among those who have employed and discussed the term positively or critically. Some others such as Debray, Mark Taylor, and Walter Benjamin have spoken of mediology instead of the philosophy of media and maintained that the latter is a wrong way to knowledge which is doomed to commit errors concerning media. As a very new branch of the contemporary philosophy, the philosophy of media is still the subject matter of deep discussions about media; and, in spite of its severe critiques of philosophy of media, mediology has not managed to stop it. What is of importance concerning philosophical discussion about media may be introduced in the form of such questions as "what is the philosophy of media and how is it defined?", "is philosophizing concerning media some sort of ontology, epistemology, or phenomenology of the media?", "may one speak of and philosophize about the media and their functions in the way that the analytic philosophers do?" While reviewing the history of emergence of the philosophy of media in brief, the present article tries to provide a definition for it; and to reply the above questions it discusses the kind of philosophizing about media. According to the authors, philosophy of media, in spite of claims made by the adherents of mediology, is possible; and it is the same as philosophical knowledge of the media. In other words, the philosopher is able to philosophically discuss the media like phenomena such as mind, knowledge, and arts. Though, independent from its relation to man (the addressee) and, somehow, independent from the nature of awareness, the media have no independent existence; they are of influence on man's awareness and perception. To speak about the kind of impacts exerted by media on perception concerns ontological, epistemological, phenomenological, and analytic views to the media.
Maryam Saneapour
Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2012, , Pages 115-130
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Development of internet entails a new plural era for human identities based on various cultures and civilizations. Though this diversity may arrive to anarchy, but with a systematic manner, mankind can free from monopolism of western subjectivism and therefore a phenomenological approach to all of the ...
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Development of internet entails a new plural era for human identities based on various cultures and civilizations. Though this diversity may arrive to anarchy, but with a systematic manner, mankind can free from monopolism of western subjectivism and therefore a phenomenological approach to all of the human culturs develops in the whole world . thus multiple discussion reconstructs the collective identity and this process will form continually and permanently collective wise and human sentiments will be transform to collective sentiments.
Qasem Pourhassan
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 63-84
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Question oriented media and religion means that whether media should be viewed as a religious thing or is essentially a secular and non-religious thing. Often through the lack of proper research, the two areas of media and religion are studied separately, and the analysis of the relation between communication ...
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Question oriented media and religion means that whether media should be viewed as a religious thing or is essentially a secular and non-religious thing. Often through the lack of proper research, the two areas of media and religion are studied separately, and the analysis of the relation between communication (media) and modernity is done on the basis of three attitudes: national relations, advantage oriented and structure oriented. Many of the present theories about religion and media are oriented toward “media-like religion” or in an optimistic view try to explain how one acts as a means for the other. The religious media emphasizes that media is not totally as a container for religion and nor the technology of media can degrade religion to the level of a message. So, media can not be considered as a second hand phenomenon and yet, nor the religion as biased. The first issue in explaining religion and media is recognition of the essence of media, its features, the capacity and ability of media, insightful history and knowledge of media, relation between media and the culture of West and liberal thought, media and the nature of secularism and civilization. The present article tries to discuss the functions of media, the open approaches toward media and religion and common areas of religion in religious media.
Faezeh Tavakoli
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 85-98
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As Mass Media is expanding nationally and internationally and affects the cultural foundations of the society, the common elements of the various cultures, through such contact and relation of the cultures, are mixing with each other. The important change about culture is the mutual understanding of ...
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As Mass Media is expanding nationally and internationally and affects the cultural foundations of the society, the common elements of the various cultures, through such contact and relation of the cultures, are mixing with each other. The important change about culture is the mutual understanding of the cultures, with no tendency to remove one. In this respect, the cultural democracy emphasizes on the principle that the dependency of an individual to a culture is one of the basic human needs and every individual, group, and community possesses the right to be appointed to (a) culture(s). This article, posing the question about the components of cultural democracy, identifies the mutual relationship between media and culture. Respecting others’ values and moving towards an international society with concord and harmony, depends on the removal of the restrictions of intercultural relations, not the removal of the cultures. Media is considered as on effective foundation in the culture of the societies and functions within cultures. The result of such relation and bond is the mutual connection between Media and culture. The revolution of information, and accordingly the (phenomenon of) globalization of Media make a turning point in developing political, economical and cultural cooperation between different societies.
