Hossein Heidari; bagher saroukhani; Mehrdad Navabakhsh
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of online social networks on national identity. The research method is survey and the statistical population consisted of citizens over 15 years of Tabriz. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster sampling and research tool is researcher made questionnaire. ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of online social networks on national identity. The research method is survey and the statistical population consisted of citizens over 15 years of Tabriz. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster sampling and research tool is researcher made questionnaire. The findings showed that the duration of membership has a negative effect on national identity and dimensions of awareness and commitment. Also, the effect of the amount of activity on the commitment and actual presence on the awareness is negative. But being active has a positive effect on the belonging and commitment of national identity. The impact of online social network on commitment is more than other dimensions. The results showed that mere presence in online social networks does not have a positive or negative effect on national identity, but the social and cultural context of users is effective in determining the type of impact of these networks and providing a comprehensive definition of national identity can strengthen identity.
Hassan Bashir; Ahmad Kuhi
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2013, , Pages 83-107
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Combining media formats and integrate them in digital formats; media convergence has created major changes in the media industry. This article looks at the definitions of the media convergence by professionals, and introduces the theory of "convergence culture" as a theory of what the new media is? New ...
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Combining media formats and integrate them in digital formats; media convergence has created major changes in the media industry. This article looks at the definitions of the media convergence by professionals, and introduces the theory of "convergence culture" as a theory of what the new media is? New media culture in the three categories of mobility, participation and identity, has changed the audience. This study enumerates a variety of new activities by TV audiences in the age of convergence and introduces the TV in the age, “participate TV”. The question is whether television a “new media” is? At the result, television is evolving media that its new plat-forms are counted new media. Television must be able to interact with new media such as th Internet and social networks to survive and grow in the era of convergence and rise and increase the audience control of the flow of media.
Fatemeh Gasabi; Seyed Reza Naghibulsadat
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2015, , Pages 83-109
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This study depicts the content of social networks like Facenama, Cloob, Facebook and Google plus. The question here is what variables exist in Iranian content and themes in comparison with non-Iranian networks In this study, we used content analysis method which is an investigative method used to expand ...
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This study depicts the content of social networks like Facenama, Cloob, Facebook and Google plus. The question here is what variables exist in Iranian content and themes in comparison with non-Iranian networks In this study, we used content analysis method which is an investigative method used to expand on evident content of messaging. Overall, this study indicates that the content is much about actual images, neutral images, entertainment, notifications, exaggeration and hyperbole, attention technique, clarity of speech and human values.However, we concluded that there is a meaningful relation between style and content as well as orientation of context and principles in both Iranian and non-Iranian networks.
Faezeh Tavakoli
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 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.
Bahareh Nasir; Ameneh Bakhtiar
Volume 5, Issue 2 , Summer and Autumn 2015, , Pages 85-111
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Given the widespread use of cell phone in the Age of Communication, this communication tool is considered inevitable in families and can function differently (overt and covert) followed by increasing or decreasing the safety coefficient of the family, This article describes the problems ...
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Given the widespread use of cell phone in the Age of Communication, this communication tool is considered inevitable in families and can function differently (overt and covert) followed by increasing or decreasing the safety coefficient of the family, This article describes the problems of social security and the consequences of improper use of the mobile phone on families. Based on this concern three major questions are posed: security problems, adverse social consequences, corrected and revised strategies. The method of the research is survey–descriptive. The question nair econsisting of 19 questions is designed by the researcher and is carried out with random sampling. The data required to respond to research questions, are gathered using documents related and analyzed qualitatively. According to the research findings, some suggestions and solutions are offered by the authors.
Azra Ghandeharion; mahbobe rostami
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2017, , Pages 85-103
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Advertisement is one of the most important parts in any media around the world. Most of the ideas presented in peoples’ life are conveyed through advertisements. It plays a pivotal role in shaping the dominant discourse. To have an effective advertisement, producers search the ways to capture the ...
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Advertisement is one of the most important parts in any media around the world. Most of the ideas presented in peoples’ life are conveyed through advertisements. It plays a pivotal role in shaping the dominant discourse. To have an effective advertisement, producers search the ways to capture the audiences' attention. Therefore the beautification of products always is in the center of producers’ attention: they depict a utopian world through the advertisements. Thomas More who challenged the dominant discourse of his time in Utopia, introduces utopia as a place in which no misery, poverty and hate exist. In present time, advertisement tries to unite utopia and ideology. This paper will study the utopian world according to its primary definition and its changes during the time; the way that advertisement implicitly works through hegemony to implement ideology. Then, emphasizing on Iranian television advertisements in early 1390s (2010s), the research follows the issue up in an empirical and objective way. Our research takes advantage of interdisciplinary studies as an integral part of comparative literature. It also uses the new definition of text that includes any cultural product and blurs the boundary between low and high literature. Among the different scopes of advertisement, the focus of this study is on household appliances. The aim is to find the ideology behind this utopian representation and its affinities with the real life of the target audience.
Hossein Mostaghimi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2014, , Pages 86-106
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The current paper tries to evaluate new media system and identify its functional roles in an ideal society. Considering radio stations, their effectiveness mostly rely on their interaction with the society and on marketing. Therefore, the researcher has tried to analyze the literature on media studies ...
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The current paper tries to evaluate new media system and identify its functional roles in an ideal society. Considering radio stations, their effectiveness mostly rely on their interaction with the society and on marketing. Therefore, the researcher has tried to analyze the literature on media studies with a focus on radio to map its roles and analyze its functions in the following criteria: 1. Cultural Punctuation (the role of radio in cultural identification) 2. Social Computation (radio as an agent for public service efficacy) 3. Language Gardening (radio as a reference of language standardization) Promoting these three major roles will lead to the formation of a media culture, which by propagating will enhance the role of media in our lives. At macro level, the current study tries to trace how radio stations affect our social lives by introducing six major methods of effectiveness. At micro level, it is aimed at identifying operational goals by introducing 12 sub-roles for radio stations, which could be done by studying previous researches and carrying out field studies.
Ehsan Soltanifar; Taher Roshandel Aritani
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2012, , Pages 87-114
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In the modern governance, to media, as a central point in the issues such as good governance, paramount importance is attached by experts of governmental management and media management. On the other hand, researchers in the fields of political sciences and international studies have pointed, while discussing ...
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In the modern governance, to media, as a central point in the issues such as good governance, paramount importance is attached by experts of governmental management and media management. On the other hand, researchers in the fields of political sciences and international studies have pointed, while discussing issues such as diplomacy of media, propaganda, and soft war, to the role played by media in formation of the soft power of nations and schools. A study of the literature in this field, however, reveals absence of a comprehensive and operational explanation of the role played by media in intelligent management of domestic affairs of countries on the one hand and their international relations on the other. In the era of globalization and for a country like Iran, which has faced for long years soft and hard attacks made by domestic and foreign enemies, this is of much more importance. The present study begins with a systematic review of the literature in the field of media, culture, governance, and soft power. Then and after discussing requirements and functions of media in an atmosphere of soft war, results are presented in the form of an operational model for policy-making in the field of media. In conclusion, executive and applied findings and requirements have been summed up. In the era of globalization, to attain transcendence, it seems that media with morality-centered and national-based concerns should have four functions: attraction, repulsion, invasion, and policy in relation to domestic and international interests of those involved. As defined in the present article, the transcendent media are media which, relying on fundamental cultures and values of the society, accompany people and governance both in domestic affairs and foreign policy so that the country's affair may be managed and developed. Results of the present study may be employed, as a framework, for comprehensive studies and policy-makings in the field of soft defense, and, consequently, pave the way to establish and develop intelligent power of the intended culture or ideology.
seyed ali rahmanzade; mehrdad tavakoli
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2018, , Pages 87-104
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This research studies the influence of using mass media(TV.Radio and press)on awareness of civilrights among the residents of Tehran.To achieve this aim,the viewpoint of theorists like lerner,Rodgers,cotz and,… has used. The independent variants in this research includes the using of massmedia, ...
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This research studies the influence of using mass media(TV.Radio and press)on awareness of civilrights among the residents of Tehran.To achieve this aim,the viewpoint of theorists like lerner,Rodgers,cotz and,… has used. The independent variants in this research includes the using of massmedia, the amounts of satisfaction with training programs,trust to deomestic media. In this research,the surveying and questionnaire technique has been used for collecting data among the repliers. The research statistic society includes of the people with 18years old and above in Tehran. The typical society is 400ones that have been selected inmultistage clustering sampling. The data of the research had analyzed by SPSS software,that the results are as follows: Media because of different reasons, including lack of satisfaction and trust of the audience , have a marginal role in training civil rights to citizens, so teaching resource in the field of civilrights in Tehran, are not local media,and it should be somewhere else, such as schools, universities, foreign media and environmental media (eg, billboards, graffiti, etc.) and interpersonal communications.In other words, the mass media have not a significant influence on civilrights knowledge in Tehran,and this role must been reviewed and strengthened. It should be noted that the higher age and education of people cause to higher awareness of civilrights,but there is not any meaningful relationship between gender and the place of born with the awareness of civilrights, among the people of Tehran
hamidreza radfar
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There is a continuous challenge in use of information resources and scientific, art and cultural works and their copyright problems. To encounter this challenge need to satisfy both of the copy right owners of digital contents and the users who wants these contents. Between medias and ...
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There is a continuous challenge in use of information resources and scientific, art and cultural works and their copyright problems. To encounter this challenge need to satisfy both of the copy right owners of digital contents and the users who wants these contents. Between medias and websites that contain digital contents under copyright laws, digital libraries maybe have more hardship about this problem; because they have numerous digital contents and resources and also have to response their users that expect receive the best resources to satisfy their information needs. Therefore the solutions that digital library use to encounter this challenge is useful for other cases that present digital content. In this article after reviewed about the subject of copy right and the problems about it and digital libraries, tried to present solutions for protection the copyright of digital contents that can used by digital libraries and another similar cases.
masoud qolampor
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2016, , Pages 89-110
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Public Issues framing is one of the main tools of media to shape public opinion and to influence political decisions. The media influence understanding of audiences through framing. Hence it could be expected that media use Public Issues framing as a competitive tool. Creating competitive frames, the ...
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Public Issues framing is one of the main tools of media to shape public opinion and to influence political decisions. The media influence understanding of audiences through framing. Hence it could be expected that media use Public Issues framing as a competitive tool. Creating competitive frames, the media contribute to advance political goals and to make intended political decisions. Identification of different media frames regarding a public issue such as subsidy plan illustrates how media influence public policy. For this purpose, contents of all news stories regarding the subject of subsidy plan within two competing groups of newspaperwere analyzed to reveal how the counter framings of these media of one public issue. The results of research indicate that these two groups of newspapers that have contrary orientations and tendencies use counter framings to influence political decisions.
siyavash salavatian; Aliakbar Farhangi; mozhgan hozuri
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2018, , Pages 89-117
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This study is an ethnographic research in which we have collected data using deep interview on the Tehranian people’s perception of IRIB media justice preservation. The studied population consists of two social classes residing in Tehran, the rich and the poor. The rich or high-income group includes ...
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This study is an ethnographic research in which we have collected data using deep interview on the Tehranian people’s perception of IRIB media justice preservation. The studied population consists of two social classes residing in Tehran, the rich and the poor. The rich or high-income group includes the family whose monthly income is more than ten million Tomans and the poor or low-income families include the people whose monthly income is less than seven hundred thousand Tomans. A targeted sampling was conducted among the two groups, finally 45 persons were interviewed; 20 persons from among the high-income class and 25 others from among the low-income class. The qualitative coding was applied to analyze the data gathered in the interviews. According to the represented concept of the media justice in this study, equal distribution of the opportunities and facilities for all people and all regions of the country- in a way that all parts of the country can be displayed harmoniously- has been emphasized, so that people stop feeling there is centralism in the country and do not think that the media is controlled by the ruling class who, without understanding the people’s problems and troubles, displays what it like and not what actually happens in the society
Mohammad Reza Zaali; Mojtaba Naahid
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2015, , Pages 91-122
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Population diversity, varied demands of the customers, constant economic fluctuations, and change of energy approach have all caused the entrepreneurship to be taken into account as one of the most important national strategies of both developed and underdevelopment countries. One of the agents ...
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Population diversity, varied demands of the customers, constant economic fluctuations, and change of energy approach have all caused the entrepreneurship to be taken into account as one of the most important national strategies of both developed and underdevelopment countries. One of the agents influencing upon entrepreneurship development is the role of mass media such as television. This investigation attempts to shed light on the role of television in entrepreneurship development in Iran based on the Q Methodology. On the foundation of participation data related to 48 people obtained from the Q Methodology questionnaire and the results of agent analysis based on persons (directors and experts of media and entrepreneurship), thirteen roles of television in developing entrepreneurship on the basis of three-dimensional model were identified: behavioral roles, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial capabilities, modeling entrepreneurial behavior, recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity, entrepreneurial orientation, development of business skills, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial action, structural roles, modification of business laws, documenting the entrepreneurial experiences, contextual roles, entrepreneurial cultivation, distributing information on entrepreneurial activities, and institutionalizing the culture of teamwork.
Mohsen Niazi; Elham Shafaiemoghaddam
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2012, , Pages 99-127
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Mass Communication Media are information highways which roles in culture and identity have recently interested social science scholars. In this regard, different conceptual frameworks have been of offered. Snowball communication is an idea that emphasizes the formation of identities through Mass media. ...
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Mass Communication Media are information highways which roles in culture and identity have recently interested social science scholars. In this regard, different conceptual frameworks have been of offered. Snowball communication is an idea that emphasizes the formation of identities through Mass media. On the contrary, some scholars emphasize information analysis. Still others emphasize a more balanced approach and point out the contradictory and dual role of mass media in both forming and eroding national identity. The purpose of the present article is to explore the level and content of TV programs, satellite channels, and internet sites on national identity of the citizens and their variables. The population of the study was the residents of Kashan, a traditional city that has recently begun movement toward modernity. The study is a survey work in which data have been collected through questionnaires and interviews. A 10-item Likert- scale questionnaire provided data on the main variable. The cronbach’s alpha reliability was 0.84. Results indicated significant positive correlation between TV use and tendencies toward national identity (Tb= 0.252). However, the relationship was negative for the use of satellite channels and the internet (TC= -0.271 and -0.199). Chi-square analysis also confirmed the data. Regression analysis (β= 0.268 and -0.276) also reflects the positive effects of TV and the negative effects of Satellites on national identity.
reza dehbani pour; yasin khorampour; enayat sheykhi
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2019, , Pages 99-125
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With the transitionfrom thetraditionaltothe modern eraand thepost-modernsociety, we arewitnessing theeffectsof a newsocial life. During thepassageofeach of theseperiods, you can easilychangethetype ofthinking, attitudesandhumanbehaviorobserved. Oneofthe elements thatplay a fundamental rolein changing ...
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With the transitionfrom thetraditionaltothe modern eraand thepost-modernsociety, we arewitnessing theeffectsof a newsocial life. During thepassageofeach of theseperiods, you can easilychangethetype ofthinking, attitudesandhumanbehaviorobserved. Oneofthe elements thatplay a fundamental rolein changing theattitudesand behaviorof thenewage,isthe media. Therefore, this studysought toexamine the relationship betweenmediaandpostmodernismis. Thisresearchthroughquantitative methodsamong384young peopletookthe city of Yazd. Multistagecluster samplingandmeasurement toolis aquestionnaire. The resultsshowed thatthere was no significantrelationship betweengenderandculturalpostmodernism, although someelements ofpostmodernismhave establisheda significant relationshipwith sex.Theuseofsatelliteandpostmodernculture, there is a significant andpositive.Buttheuseoftelevision,there was no significantrelationshippostmodernculture.Andonlyaftercultural relativismusing theinternalTVsignificantpositive relationshipestablished.The regression resultsshowed thatthe use of satellitesto be able toexplainthe variance inthe postmoderncultural 0/17.
seyyed fazlollah qazavi; sadegh zibakalam; seyedvahid aqili
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2017, , Pages 101-118
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Modern public diplomacy (MPD) is a form of public diplomacy which plays an important role in the increase of soft or smart power of countries around the world and in the extension of their influence in the global arena, especially for small countries with limited hard power.Modern public diplomacy more ...
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Modern public diplomacy (MPD) is a form of public diplomacy which plays an important role in the increase of soft or smart power of countries around the world and in the extension of their influence in the global arena, especially for small countries with limited hard power.Modern public diplomacy more than anything is under the influence of new media including the cyberspace. In this paper, the role of cyberspace in promotion of MPD is studied. This is an applied study in terms of achievements and findings, and a descriptive-survey study regarding its objectives. The statistical population consists of all professors in political science, international relations and communications from prestigious universities in Tehran, Iran. By using convenience sampling method, 14 experts are selected for the study.Two questions are designed according to the opinions of study participants: (a) What is the role of social networks in promoting MPD? And (b) what are the benefits of cyber communications in promoting MPD?A 23-item questionnaire in Persian, rated on Likert scale,is used to collect data from experts which was then analyzed based on the Delphi technique and using statistical tests. According to the obtained results, it is concluded that the cyberspace can create a major impact on modern public diplomacyby affectingthe political development of Iran through mechanisms such asopen expression of political views, awareness of the political currents,promotion and introduction of special parties and enrichment of the political and factional rivalry as well as paving the way for diplomacy.
farnaz sarbandi; ebrahim hajiani; seyed reza Salehi Amiri
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This article's goal is analysis of government's cultural policies and actions in area of cinema economics after the Islamic revolution. The used method is applied (goal), qualitative and quantitative (data) and causal mechanism. Data are consisted of governmental documents and interview of the experts. ...
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This article's goal is analysis of government's cultural policies and actions in area of cinema economics after the Islamic revolution. The used method is applied (goal), qualitative and quantitative (data) and causal mechanism. Data are consisted of governmental documents and interview of the experts. Second data and statistics are also used for study of the governments operations. The processes are shown by causal mechanism diagrams. The results show that: policies in all periods and states are on the basis of the states ideology and thinking and also are dependent to who are responsible of cinema affairs. Decrease of foreign film exhibition and internal film festivals are the continuous policies of all periods. So there is a failure in cinema economics policy making in order to achieving goals that is lack of a long term comprehensive policy and vision. In all periods infrastructures cinema economics were ignored.
Hamid Abdollahian; Mohammad Javad Zohdi; Mahin Sheikh Ansari
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2014, , Pages 103-129
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This paper studies and compares elements of social networks, including structure, interaction, user anonymity and self-representation, in the following social networks: a) Yahoo chat rooms, b) Yahoo Groups, c) OkCupid (online dating network), and (d) Facebook. The paper addresses the question as ...
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This paper studies and compares elements of social networks, including structure, interaction, user anonymity and self-representation, in the following social networks: a) Yahoo chat rooms, b) Yahoo Groups, c) OkCupid (online dating network), and (d) Facebook. The paper addresses the question as to the relationship between structural elements and user actions in the four networks. It proposes a model build on Thomas theory and on Lindlof and Taylor’s qualitative approach to communication in order to provide a better understanding into user actions in the virtual world. The paper also redefines notions of voluntary groups, circles and aggregates, and dyads. Results suggest that user self-representation is influenced by structural elements of the network, anonymity and norms of the virtual world.
Mahdi Montazer Qaem; Farzad Gholami
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2013, , Pages 107-134
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The topic discussed in this research is the representation of Iranian society in facing modernity in Bitter Coffee TV series directed by Mehran Modiri. The question is whether the Iranian society is represented as an unreasonable phenomenon incompatible with modernity or not. To answer this question, ...
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The topic discussed in this research is the representation of Iranian society in facing modernity in Bitter Coffee TV series directed by Mehran Modiri. The question is whether the Iranian society is represented as an unreasonable phenomenon incompatible with modernity or not. To answer this question, the narrative analysis (Greimas actors’ analysis pattern) is used. Then, using the postcolonial studies, we criticized the representation of the traditional and modern characters; the barriers of developing modernity in Iran. After the Greimas pattern being adapted with four episodes of the TV series, the findings show that all of the traditional characters are represented as the other for “Mostasharolmolk” (the symbol of modernity). In other words, they are characterized using stereotypes such as stupid, lazy, profit-seeking, and illogical. On the other hand, the protagonist (the symbol of modernity) is represented as creative, active and logical. All over the series, Mostasharolmolk has an active role. Regarding this, we can conclude that the Iranian society and culture are represented as if they had no motivation to change and progress. Therefore, the Iranian society is lacks any abilities to change and any attempts to become modern. In the series narration, the main barriers of developing modernity include the structure of the educational system, the vertical structure of the power, Iranian despotism, the stupidity and laziness of the Iranians, which hold them back from achieving their goals. Based on the postcolonial criticism, we can claim that although the series is correctly showing the weaknesses of the Iranian society, the dominant narration of the series approximates the Orientalistic discourses which are criticized by the postcolonial studies.
fahimeh rahimi; Morteza dehqannejad; Abolhasan FAiiaz Anush; AliAkbar jafary
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Today, the growing importance of cyberspace in the field of advertising and information is not hidden from anyone. This issue is so important that neglecting it can be costly for any thinker. Based on this importance, the present study intends to examine the use of cyberspace by two spectrums of emerging ...
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Today, the growing importance of cyberspace in the field of advertising and information is not hidden from anyone. This issue is so important that neglecting it can be costly for any thinker. Based on this importance, the present study intends to examine the use of cyberspace by two spectrums of emerging mysticism - Ashu and halgheh mysticism. In this regard, an attempt was made, with a descriptive-analytical method, to set the activities of cyberspace in a period of six months and with emphasis on the number of channels, number of users, number of posts, content of posts, how The use of new mystics from the bedrock of cyberspace and their goals in this space should be studied and analyzed. The most important finding of this research, which has been written in a descriptive-analytical manner, indicates that it is important that mysticism is used in cyberspace and focusing on important and attractive topics such as defending women's rights and opposing some religious issues. , Have been able to grow significantly among young people. Also, their lack of access to authorized media and filtering has not been a major obstacle in their way.
Siayavash Jamadi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2011, , Pages 99-121
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The elaboration of culture industry by theodor W.Adorno and Max Horkheimer- co- authors of Dialektik der Aufklarung (Dixlectic of Enlightment)- is grounded on their account of how the identity – based instrumental reason of enlightenment (Aufklarung), thought intended to secure freedom from fear ...
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The elaboration of culture industry by theodor W.Adorno and Max Horkheimer- co- authors of Dialektik der Aufklarung (Dixlectic of Enlightment)- is grounded on their account of how the identity – based instrumental reason of enlightenment (Aufklarung), thought intended to secure freedom from fear of mythical authorities, could turn into the political, social and cultural totalitarian domination, depriving humans of their individual freedom and creativity and reifying both society and individuals. As Adorno and Horkheimer put, the culture producing media, thanks to technical mass reproduction, in the late capitalism, functions as pre- determining schematism of the whole cultural products through standardizing all varieties and diversities in such a way that obedience can be confused with freedom. Thus, in the system of exchange value, culture industry makes any object into commodity, whether being economical or cultural. This paper is a version of how Adorno and Horkheimer justify this disastrous suppression which through atomizing process levels down all humans and their tastes and creativities. Meanwhile, the essay has a brief critical assessment of this so called doctrine.
hoseyn kermani; mansour saei
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2017, , Pages 105-121
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This paper aims to explore the effects of Social Network Sites (SNSs) on ethnical identity in students of Tehran universities. SNSs have played an important role in the political, social, cultural and even economic events in recent years, so studying them and their effects is a necessary. Following such ...
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This paper aims to explore the effects of Social Network Sites (SNSs) on ethnical identity in students of Tehran universities. SNSs have played an important role in the political, social, cultural and even economic events in recent years, so studying them and their effects is a necessary. Following such rationale, we assess the effects of these sites on ethnical identity. Reviewing exiting literature shows that ethnical identity includes 4 dimensions: ethnical identification, ethnical culture belonging, ethnical community commitment, and political dimension. Also we used a combination of purpose and snowball sampling methods to gather the research sample, and research is done using online questionnaire. Facebook was chosen as a research field due to its popularity. Results show that there is a relation between SNSs using and ethnical identity. Despite the existence of this relationship we should mention that this correlation is weak.
farhad ziviar; mahdi shahin; jafar hasankhani; reza rahmati
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2018, , Pages 105-128
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The Interwoven and complex world of the twenty-first century wich is charecterized by unorganized and informal technologic progress, is facing a multiplicity of actors. The objective and subjective conflicts between sub-national actors such as ethnic groups, and supranatinal actors such as multinational ...
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The Interwoven and complex world of the twenty-first century wich is charecterized by unorganized and informal technologic progress, is facing a multiplicity of actors. The objective and subjective conflicts between sub-national actors such as ethnic groups, and supranatinal actors such as multinational companies and institutions And regional groups and associations is one of the features of current society. This, along with the awareness, knowledge, and information empowerment, are emerging as International and domestic agents of the world. The main question of this study is: what is the effect of internationalized media and virtual social networks, on the national identity (and in particular the sence of belonging to the Persian-language civilization ) of iranian users? It is hypothesized that using internatioalized media and virtual social networks Is a cause of reinforcing national idedntity, increasing the sence of belonging to persian civilization and returning to the mothers identity.
Vida Hamraz; Farah Ghanizadeh Seyedlar
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2014, , Pages 107-139
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Radio is used for educational purposes in many countries all over the world. However, its significance, for both formal and informal learning, has been overlooked in Iran, regarding the data driven from multiple researches on this subject. The current study is aimed at outlining the significance ...
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Radio is used for educational purposes in many countries all over the world. However, its significance, for both formal and informal learning, has been overlooked in Iran, regarding the data driven from multiple researches on this subject. The current study is aimed at outlining the significance of starting an educational radio station in Iran, considering the social, cultural and economic settings of the country, and it tries to introduce patterns for educational programming. The underlying theoretical framework of this study is based on Lasswell & Lerner’s theories. The data will be driven from the semi-structured interviews with eight experts on the field. Upon data analysis, it will become apparent that an educational radio station is greatly needed in a country like Iran with a large number of rural societies, multiplicity of cultures, and problems like inaccessibility to educational services. Radio, as it is easily accessible for all, can be used as a teaching assistant tool for formal learning. Moreover, concerning informal learning, radio can have an effective role in increasing public knowledge, accelerating social development and generating educational justice.
Taher Roshandel Arbatani; Manouchehr Saber
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2013, , Pages 109-128
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Information technology was able to change all the ways and methods of transforms, exchange, save and management of information. Nowadays, the newest communication technologies have changed the social changes so fast and deep that even the most stable part of human's life which is the culture could not ...
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Information technology was able to change all the ways and methods of transforms, exchange, save and management of information. Nowadays, the newest communication technologies have changed the social changes so fast and deep that even the most stable part of human's life which is the culture could not resist and had changed. The mankind has faced serious cultural changes because of the increase in the speed of cultural transfer. Hence, figuring such a landscape in IT area could be positive changes based on cultural favorable solutions. In this article, we are defining culture and IT accompanied with a study on their properties. A study has done, on the relation between culture and IT based on the newest communication technologies (the most important one is Internet). The writer has discussed different viewpoints about Internet and its function and the influence and has shown all disadvantages and damages of this newest technology beside its advantages and capabilities. At last the influence of internet on religious values is shown and studied.
