Javad Azarnegar; SeyedAlireza Afshani; SeyedAlimohamad Mazidi
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In recent years, the press has witnessed a decline in its audience due to various factors, including cultural, social, political, and economic influences, as well as existing restrictions. This research aimed to investigate the reasons, processes, strategies, and consequences of this issue by employing ...
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In recent years, the press has witnessed a decline in its audience due to various factors, including cultural, social, political, and economic influences, as well as existing restrictions. This research aimed to investigate the reasons, processes, strategies, and consequences of this issue by employing the grounded theory method, which follows a systematic approach. The participants in this study were communication media experts and individuals with a minimum of 7 years of experience in the press field. Through purposeful sampling, a total of 29 people were selected and interviewed using a semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed using the three-step coding method of grounded theory, which includes open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The findings revealed that the causal conditions influencing the distancing of the press can be categorized into three parts: socio-cultural factors (such as Iranian oral tradition, digitization of culture, minimalistic life, and institutional mistrust), political factors (including political restrictions and behavioral politicization), and economic factors (such as economic poverty, inflation, and high prices). The contextual conditions contributing to people's distance from the press are the political economy and virtualization. Additionally, the intervening conditions impacting people's distance from the press encompass content weakness and structural weakness. To address this issue, strategies such as content modernization, communication modernization, and structural modernization were identified. If these strategies are successfully implemented, the most significant consequence for the press would be a reduction in people's distance from it, leading to a decrease in the downward trend of the press audience.
SeyedAlireza Afshani; ali ruhani; Negin Naeimi
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Death is a social phenomenon studied by social scientists from different aspects. Meanwhile, in addition to demographic aspect,unexpected deaths,caused by accidents, drowning, fire, etc…, have consequent social and cultural aspects that have not received so much attention. Every day,many citizens ...
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Death is a social phenomenon studied by social scientists from different aspects. Meanwhile, in addition to demographic aspect,unexpected deaths,caused by accidents, drowning, fire, etc…, have consequent social and cultural aspects that have not received so much attention. Every day,many citizens are faced with unexpected deaths that bring about particular mental and social effects on the bereaved people.The present research aims to discover the process of the bereaved people’s deconstruction after a loved one’s death.To understand the process by applying a qualitative approach and the grounded theory method,we tried to discover and construct the bereaved people’s deconstruction.Data were gathered by theoretical sampling and deep interviews.The respondents were those bereaved people who experienced unexpected deaths of their loved ones in the traditional religious context of Yazd.The data were carefully analyzed using the processes of open coding, axial coding and selective coding.Then, the table of concepts and paradigmatic model were presented.The results reflect the fact that in facing with loss,people construct it mentally and socially,but over time,they try to revise their mourning face and gradually complete the process of their deconstruction by different strategies such as emotion regulation,mutual blame,and supportive expectations.
Shojaat Poorsedighi; Shadi Zabet; SeyedAlireza Afshani
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The ICT are accused of weakening family relationships. The purpose of this article is studing the role of ICT in practicing one of Islamic religion recommendations. Saleh-y-e rahem, between the youngsters and their family members; Saleh means bond and affinity, and Rahem means womb. on the other hand, ...
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The ICT are accused of weakening family relationships. The purpose of this article is studing the role of ICT in practicing one of Islamic religion recommendations. Saleh-y-e rahem, between the youngsters and their family members; Saleh means bond and affinity, and Rahem means womb. on the other hand, in this study we are trying to show the role of using ICT such as computer, mobile phone, Internet etc., in digital Sale-ye Rahem (family relationships using ICT) and Physical Sale-ye Rahem (face-to-face relationships). The study of social survey and research data has been gathered using the Questionnaire. Statistical community included youngsters between 15-29 years old in Yasuj city using Cochran sampling formula with 398 people who were examined and selected by random sampling. According to the results of Cronbach's alpha, reliability and validity of research is approved. Data were analyzed using SPSS21 software . The results of this research indicated that the use of ICT increases, Sale-ye Rahem is stengtend through digital communication tools.. Then, there is not a meaningful relationship between using of ICT and reducing physical Sale-ye Rahem. In other hand, this article shows that not only the ICT helps to establishment of a new form of Sale-ye Rahem, but it claims that the ICTs do not play a significant role in the reduction of physical Sale-ye Rahem.
Mohammadreza Mazidi-Sharifabadi; Faezeh Taghipour; SeyedAlireza Afshani
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Today, the use of mobile social networks has become an important and sensitive issue. It is rooted in several social factors. In the present era, the level of users’ skills has also become a vital issue for human societies. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between users’ ...
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Today, the use of mobile social networks has become an important and sensitive issue. It is rooted in several social factors. In the present era, the level of users’ skills has also become a vital issue for human societies. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between users’ skills and positive and negative uses of mobile social networks. To conduct this survey, a multi-stage cluster sampling method was used and 385 young people in Yazd, Iran were selected. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire that was validated with content and structural validity as well as Cronbach's alpha coefficient for reliability. The findings showed that there were significant relationships between the users’ skills and negative and positive uses of mobile social networks. The users’ skills explained 0.33% and 0.14% of the variance of positive and negative uses of mobile social networks, respectively. The results of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) also showed that the model had a suitable goodness of fit.
SeyedAlireza Afshani; SeyedAlimohamad Mazidi sharafabadi; Monire Sadri
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Media literacy is a topic that takes into account the power of the audience to understand how the media works and how it works, and wants to turn this analysis into an habit and task for the audience. Accordingly, the present study has examined the relationship between cultural capital and media literacy ...
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Media literacy is a topic that takes into account the power of the audience to understand how the media works and how it works, and wants to turn this analysis into an habit and task for the audience. Accordingly, the present study has examined the relationship between cultural capital and media literacy among young people in Bafgh city. This research has been carried out using survey method and multi-stage cluster sampling on 384 individuals among youth in the city of Bafgh. Data were collected using researcher made questionnaires of cultural capital and media literacy. Data analysis was performed using SPSS and Amos software. Findings showed that between cultural capital and media literacy there was direct and significant relationship (p <0.001). Among the dimensions of cultural capital, the objective dimension had the strongest relationship with media literacy. Analysing the structural equations model, showed that the impact of cultural capital on media literacy is %0.57, which indicates the direct relationship between these two variables.
