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.
mostafa heidari haratemeh; Vahid Araei; seyed mahmod eslami
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In the world based on the digital space and the era of electronic and virtual communications, mass media and social networks, while playing the role of news sources for most financial information and data, regulate the problem of information asymmetry between investors and financial markets. It strengthens ...
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In the world based on the digital space and the era of electronic and virtual communications, mass media and social networks, while playing the role of news sources for most financial information and data, regulate the problem of information asymmetry between investors and financial markets. It strengthens the adjustment and development of markets. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of mass media on the policy and tendencies of financial market investors. The target population was based on a survey in 2021 among 420 students with investment experience in the financial markets, which was selected by purposeful and non-random sampling and after collecting, 200 questionnaires were analyzed using the logit model. The results showed: a) Mass media leads to fluctuations in investors' tendencies and policies and affects their decisions. b) In the conditions of recession and crisis in the financial markets, the impact and penetration rate of news media is more than social and specialized media. c) while in the conditions of prosperity in the financial markets only, to adjust and carry out reforms in the stock market, the influence of news media is more than social and specialized media d) media news reports basically have an asymmetric effect in the sense that In conditions of market boom, investors pay more attention to optimistic reports and ignore reports that have negative signals. On the other hand, in the conditions of recession and lack of prosperity in the market, investors are more vulnerable to pessimistic media reports, and reports with active information do not have a significant and meaningful impact on their decisions. However, financial markets investors need to learn media literacy along with financial literacy in order to distinguish real news from fake news.
jahandar amiri
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Communicative rationality is a state of communication and understanding that results in understanding, interests and common interests through critical and constructive dialogue without the interference and supervision of government institutions. Lack of dominance, coercion, existence of agency and freedom, ...
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Communicative rationality is a state of communication and understanding that results in understanding, interests and common interests through critical and constructive dialogue without the interference and supervision of government institutions. Lack of dominance, coercion, existence of agency and freedom, operationalization through language and being based on culture and ethics are prerequisites of communicative rationality. The purpose of this research is to investigate and evaluate social networks, whether they are governed by communication rationality or irrational cases and manifestations in them are more than rationality. The research method is in-depth interview with the Grounded Theory approach, the results of which have been referred to professors and experts in different stages. According to the findings, the performance of social networks based on the components of communication rationality and its preconditions has not been confirmed and Things like creating access, limiting and monitoring social networks by governments, the existence of fake news, deceit and rumours, espionage and users without identity or with fake identity, the use of social networks by terrorists and fraudsters, encouraging suicide, insecurity, Crisis generation and moral anomalies, emotional, marginal and populist approaches instead of logical arguments, extremism, sectarianism, tribal and ethnic prejudices, use of psychological warfare and propaganda techniques, politicization, polarization Instrumentalism uses are the reason for this result.
hazhir fathi; Faezeh Taghipour; nafiseh vaez
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This study seeks to identify the effective drives that can impact the future of online social networks in the face of Iranian mass media on the horizon of 1404. The research method is a combination of quantitative and qualitative, which has been done using Futuristic Research Method. This is a des[1]criptive ...
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This study seeks to identify the effective drives that can impact the future of online social networks in the face of Iranian mass media on the horizon of 1404. The research method is a combination of quantitative and qualitative, which has been done using Futuristic Research Method. This is a des[1]criptive and exploratory research with the approach of identifying uncertainties. In this regard, a total of 20 experts and specialists in the field of media, communications and online social networks, who were selected by the Snowballing method, took part in the in-depth interviews. In this study, the Delphi Method was used to identify the motives, using SPSS software, and the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method was used to discover the final key factors affecting the future of social networks. The data collection tool in the structural interpretive modeling section includes a researcher-made questionnaire containing a table of interaction matrix, and the data were analyzed by MicMac software. The research's findings showed that 27 drivers have an impact on the future of social networks, which can be classified into four general sociocultural, political/legal, economic and technological factors. According to the research's findings, technology-based affairs, digital natives, media ownership and the power of large-scale traditional media are the four final key factors influencing the future of social networks in the face of Iranian mass media on the horizon of 1404.
Fatemeh Rahpeymafard; َafsaneh mozafari; ِDavood Nemati Anaraki
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The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the participation of Instagram users and to examine how these factors relate to participation. The design of this research is an Exploratory- Sequential Mixed Methods Design And has applied purpose. The research approach in the qualitative ...
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The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the participation of Instagram users and to examine how these factors relate to participation. The design of this research is an Exploratory- Sequential Mixed Methods Design And has applied purpose. The research approach in the qualitative part is exploratory and in the quantitative part is descriptive survey. The sample of the qualitative section was selected from among communication and sociology experts who were Instagram users using a non-probabilistic method. The statistical population of a small part is Instagram users in Karaj in 2020. Users whose user status on Instagram confirmed their residence in the city of Karaj were identified with the help of an advertising service company on Instagram, and 384 people were selected by probabilistic method and simple random sampling according to the Cochran formula. The tools of data collection and analysis technique in the qualitative stage are semi-structured interview and the technique of thematic analysis and in the quantitative part, is a researcher-made questionnaire and modeling, structural equations through Lisrel software. Findings indicate 3 comprehensive themes and 15 organizing themes and 52 basic themes for the participation variable and 6 organizing themes and 21 basic themes for the factors affecting it. The results showed that political and personal characteristics, media system, cultural characteristics and Instagram characteristics had a positive, direct and significant effect on participation. content characteristics did not have a significant effect on participation.
Omid Ali Masoudi; gholamhousin eslamifard
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The issue of present study is to present a model for the role of social networks in informational cycle of news agencies, with emphasis on Irna and France-Presse news agencies. This research was conducted using Delphi's deep interviewing method. The research population was journalists that among them, ...
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The issue of present study is to present a model for the role of social networks in informational cycle of news agencies, with emphasis on Irna and France-Presse news agencies. This research was conducted using Delphi's deep interviewing method. The research population was journalists that among them, 18 person were selected as sample, using snowball sampling method. In order to analyze the obtained information, coding method was used . The finding showed that social networks are the tool to serve news agencies. In fact, with relevance to content or news topic, the news agencies take advantage of the various news packages on social networks, which are far from official news packages. Also, based on the results, news agencies and social networks have media overlap. According to the results, it can be said that news agencies should pay attention to news values and news writing, so as not neglect developments in the field of journalism.
sedigheh merjani; Fariba Nazari
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The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of social influence processes in the widespread use of social networks with the mediating role of behavioral intention. The research method was descriptive-survey with causal approach. The study population consisted of all students of Islamic ...
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The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of social influence processes in the widespread use of social networks with the mediating role of behavioral intention. The research method was descriptive-survey with causal approach. The study population consisted of all students of Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz. 379 students were selected randomly. The research tool was the Infinedo (2016) questionnaire which included dimensions of social media use, enjoyment, social influence, and behavioral intention. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 23 and Emos. The results showed that the variables of use and enjoyment and social influence had a significant effect on the behavioral intention of using social networks and behavioral intention had a significant effect on the relationship between use and enjoyment and social influence on students' pervasive use of social networks. Use and enjoyment theory dimensions including utility value, self-value, entertainment value, personal relationships and social promotion, as well as social influence processes including adaptation and identification have a significant effect on students' behavioral intention to use social networks, but the effect of internalizing variable Behavioral intention was not endorsed by social influence processes.
Zahra Dastgheyb Shirazi; Mohammad Dadgaran; nasim majidi; Neda Soleimani
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The present research is a qualitative quantitative (mixed) research which has been done in order to analyzing attitudes of social communication experts on the factors affecting Nomophobia among Islamic Azad University Students. We first extracted the features and components with a qualitative approach ...
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The present research is a qualitative quantitative (mixed) research which has been done in order to analyzing attitudes of social communication experts on the factors affecting Nomophobia among Islamic Azad University Students. We first extracted the features and components with a qualitative approach and data analysis method. Based on this, in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 professors and elites with teaching and research backgrounds in the fields of media, social communication sciences and communication sociology. Analysis of data base of qualitative sector data, lead to extraction; 72 concepts, six main categories and 19 sub-categories, with the greatest emphasis on the four main components; Individual and family factors, cultural, social, economic and political factors, intervening factors and the role of the media in the occurrence of the phenomenon of immobile phobia. In the second stage of the research to measure the findings of the quality sector (four factors in the occurrence of the phenomenon of non-mobile phobia); Quantitative approach and navigation method were used. The data collection tool in the quantitative section was a standard, researcher-made questionnaire approved by experts with 40 questions, the reliability of which was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test. The unit of analysis in the quantitative section were the students. After testing the hypotheses, the relationship between the factors of lack of self-awareness and anxiety, lack of self-confidence, ostentation, media literacy, dependence on smart phones and cyberspace, reading, skills and self-control was confirmed with the occurrence of mobile phobia.
Arezu Ghafoori; keyvan Salehi
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Cyberspace, by creating new frontiers in social communication, has created opportunities and threats for human beings. Leading research aims to identify adults' lived experiences of opportunities and threats posed by cyberspace activities. For this purpose, using Purposeful sampling of the type criterion ...
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Cyberspace, by creating new frontiers in social communication, has created opportunities and threats for human beings. Leading research aims to identify adults' lived experiences of opportunities and threats posed by cyberspace activities. For this purpose, using Purposeful sampling of the type criterion sampling 22 email interviews with open-end questions received. The adults answered the questions in four separate clusters. For accurate data analysis The MAXQDA version 12 was used. In order to increase reliability, verifiability, and credibility of data accuracy, the methods of "inspection and review at the time of coding", "benefiting the opinions of research colleagues and getting their aproval", explaining the exact details of the data collection and analysis process", long-term involvment and triangulation were used. In the partofCyberspace Opportunities and in the family cluster, child or student and community, respectively, “awareness of the daily news and facilitating family affairs", using daily news increasing socialization level, and convergence with friends and "cost reduction", were identified as the most important themes. . In the component of cyberspace threats, almost all of the themes had the same weight in terms of repetition and only in both individual and family clusters, the repetition of codes related to the "waste of time" theme has been frequent. The results showed that despite the numerous opportunities of cyberspace, due to the lack of appropriate and adequate education, the threats posed by cyberspace are becoming more visible and effective and the need for comprehensive media literacy training and management of this space is felt more than ever.
ali mohebbi; aliasghar kia
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The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of social networks on cultural changes and orientations according to Inglehart's Theory. Accordingly, the research sought to answer the question: Did social networks move the cultural orientations toward Ingelhart's Materialistic values or towards ...
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The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of social networks on cultural changes and orientations according to Inglehart's Theory. Accordingly, the research sought to answer the question: Did social networks move the cultural orientations toward Ingelhart's Materialistic values or towards Post-Materialistic values? In the present study, the mixed method (content analysis and survey) was used. In the survey section, students' attitudes towards Inglehart’s Materialistic and Post-Materialistic values were measured in social networks (in 2019). Regarding the content analysis section, the content of social networks in 2019 was measured against Materialistic and Post-Materialistic values considered by Inglehart. Survey results on "user-focused values on social media" showed that 53% of students paid attention to Post-Materialistic values. The content analysis findings also showed that about 54% of the messages generated on the three social networks of Twitter, Telegram and Instagram had Post-Materialistic value. The composition of the research results showed that the content of cyberspace was in line with students' attitudes and most attention was paid to Post-Materialistic values. These findings are consistent with Inglehart's theories and show that the country's cultural course coincides with changes in global culture.
mohamad mahdi Forghani; Robabeh Mohajeri
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Abstract The main objective of this research is to investigate the amount of trust in smartphone based social networks in Tehran. In this research, 800 randomly selected researcher-made questionnaires were distributed among 15-45 year old Tehran youths in five regions of north, south, east, west and ...
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Abstract The main objective of this research is to investigate the amount of trust in smartphone based social networks in Tehran. In this research, 800 randomly selected researcher-made questionnaires were distributed among 15-45 year old Tehran youths in five regions of north, south, east, west and center of Tehran. In the end, it was determined that trust is not related to age, education and place of residence of the users. Trust in different genders and marital status was not significantly different. The other achievement was the measure of trust, which was characterized by an average of 2.98, moderate and upward levels of confidence. Micro-variable “design and ease of use” has the most effect and micro-variable “security of software” has the least effect on trust. The main objective of this research is to investigate the amount of trust in smartphone based social networks in Tehran. In this research, 800 randomly selected researcher-made questionnaires were distributed among 15-45 year old Tehran youths in five regions of north, south, east, west and center of Tehran. In the end, it was determined that trust is not related to age, education and place of residence of the users.
Azar gholizadeh Tayebe Rajabi
Volume 14, Issue 22 , September 2013, , Pages 31-51
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The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of commanding right and forbidding wrong in improving social capital among female students. The method of the research is correlation descriptive and its statistical society included 944 female students busy studying in Khorasgan Islamic Azad University ...
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The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of commanding right and forbidding wrong in improving social capital among female students. The method of the research is correlation descriptive and its statistical society included 944 female students busy studying in Khorasgan Islamic Azad University in the academic year 2011-2012. Simple sampling, on the base of which 310 students were selected, was randomly done. Data collection instruments were a researcher made questionnaire with 63 questions and a response package. Cronbach’s alpha was used to assess its reliability and the validity of the questionnaire was achieved 0/87. Statistical data analysis was done at the inferential statistics level, factor analysis, univariable t, one-way variance analysis, Friedman test and LSD test were used. The results showed that the average score of the role of commanding right and forbidding wrong in increasing social capital with hypothetical average 3, was 3/61 which was higher than medium. In addition, the relationship between commanding right and forbidding wrong is meaningful through increasing social capital at p<0.01 level. A meaningful difference was not observed between the students’ demographic features and their attitudes.
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Volume 13, Issue 18 , September 2012, , Pages 145-172
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In this research an attempt has been made to survey the role of new media in “Occupy wall street” movement. It may caused by two reasons; First, new social movements do not trust on traditional media which represent money institutions and power owners. Second, social media are sociable. People ...
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In this research an attempt has been made to survey the role of new media in “Occupy wall street” movement. It may caused by two reasons; First, new social movements do not trust on traditional media which represent money institutions and power owners. Second, social media are sociable. People use social networks to distribute information and news which are censored by governmental media. In this way, social media affect public thoughts and consequently this will support social movements.
Group media are working in a vast impression zone, hence social movements need access to group media and develop oppositive stream. Network society development and “Occupy wall street” effects, have questioned some old media theories like Spiral of Silence, Framing and … .
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Volume 13, Issue 17 , May 2012, , Pages 181-212
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The first step in this research we uses the library method, and finally, using surveys method for comparative study of trends and also how to use Facebook social networking among students of Iran and America. Researchers at the first step research most important databases in the world's and the collecting ...
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The first step in this research we uses the library method, and finally, using surveys method for comparative study of trends and also how to use Facebook social networking among students of Iran and America. Researchers at the first step research most important databases in the world's and the collecting research, then began coding data collecting. Categorization research showed that most research on Facebook has a population of American students, around three main axes are: That usage of Facebook users, Facebook and measure the impact of student attitudes towards Facebook. Analysis showed that create new relationships, maintaining the old relationships, looking for news, information and entertainment as the main reasons were identified to Facebook. In the second phase of research was found that the tendency for students to factors such as Facebook share news and information, freedom of association, free flow of information in the network, the ability to control personal information and Principles of equality in the network, was identified as reasons the tendency of Iranian Students for using Facebook.
