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.
Behjat Shahabi anbaran; ali jafari; Shahnaz Hashemi; Mohammad Soltanifar
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the Adolescents' Dual Identities in Cyber-Real space (Case Study: Secondary School Students in Ardabil Province), which was done by survey method. The statistical population includes all high school students in the second year of Ardabil province, from which ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the Adolescents' Dual Identities in Cyber-Real space (Case Study: Secondary School Students in Ardabil Province), which was done by survey method. The statistical population includes all high school students in the second year of Ardabil province, from which 380 people were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire based on the theoretical framework of the research was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by face-to-face and structural validity and some modifications and its reliability was confirmed after calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient and removing some items. Data were analyzed by t-test of two independent groups in SPSS software. The results showed that adolescents in cyberspace had a dual identity in religious, family, sexual, national, ethnic and cultural dimensions. Adolescents' identities were more structured, coherent, and real in real space, and more mobile, unstable, and unstable in cyberspace.An identity that, according to some characteristics, can be called a modern or rethinking identity. Adolescents, in addition to trying to preserve traditional sources of identity in the real world, portrayed themselves as pro-global or cosmopolitan in cyberspace.
fatemeh mohamadi sijani; faezeh taghipour; hamidreza peikari
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This study is aimed at identifying features that make news related media appealing. Participants in the study were chosen from news correspondents, university professors and news experts. The data were collected through interviews where the key question was "what factors do affect the way viewers use ...
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This study is aimed at identifying features that make news related media appealing. Participants in the study were chosen from news correspondents, university professors and news experts. The data were collected through interviews where the key question was "what factors do affect the way viewers use news related websites?" The analysis was made using the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin. The results show how the following features affect the model used by viewers while referring to news websites: educational parameters, cyberspace effects, management styles, infrastructure factors and international communications. The interfering factors keeping the study from achieving its goals are as follows: ideological contradictions, factionalized media, de-globalization, mismanagement, technical shortcomings, fake and contradicting news, poor content, not being updated, organizational difficulties. Strategies suggested to make news websites more appealing are managerial, applicable, international, precautionary and infrastructural. Organizational implications are the key result of applying the aforementioned strategies. It has been emphasized that quality content exceeds all the other factors in making a news website more appealing to viewers.
Milad Mousavi Haghshenas; ff ff
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Given the unparalleled, extensive, and ever-increasing capabilities of cyberspace, ethical rules seem to be undeniably necessary for such a space. Benefiting from the role of social responsibilities and defining relevant codes are among the neglected capacities to organize and develop ethics in cyberspace. ...
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Given the unparalleled, extensive, and ever-increasing capabilities of cyberspace, ethical rules seem to be undeniably necessary for such a space. Benefiting from the role of social responsibilities and defining relevant codes are among the neglected capacities to organize and develop ethics in cyberspace. Based on the grounded theory (GT) and mixed methods, semi-structured interviews were first conducted with the experts of communications in this study to extract their proposed social responsibility codes for cyberspace. Then a questionnaire was employed to carry out a survey to evaluate the priorities of those codes from the perspective of Tehran citizens. It is important to devise a prioritization system because it can be used by decision-makers and executives to formulate policies, set rules, and make strategic plans. According to the research results, the proposed social responsibility codes were classified into ten categories: “social relationships”, “privacy, protection, and security”, “family and children”, “e-advertisement and e-commerce”, “unprofessional, annoying, and harmful measures and techniques”, “media literacy”, “content creation”, “intellectual property”, “right to access”, and “Internet service and bandwidth”. From the perspective of cyberspace users in Tehran, social responsibility codes of “social relationships”, “e-advertisement and e-commerce” and “privacy, protection, and security” were the top priorities.
Arman Heidari; Hamid Sedaghat; Khiry Hamidpour
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Along with the expansion of the virtual space and mediaization of the cultural space, people's identification has also changed. From a sociological point of view, the analysis of the expression of women's identity in virtual spaces, which have less freedom in traditional "real" situations to express ...
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Along with the expansion of the virtual space and mediaization of the cultural space, people's identification has also changed. From a sociological point of view, the analysis of the expression of women's identity in virtual spaces, which have less freedom in traditional "real" situations to express their identity, is particularly important. Because virtual space has provided more capacity for them to create and represent their desirable and ideal identity. In such condition, using a qualitative approach to understand the depth and fluidity of their identification process is more reasonable and frutfull. Therefore, the following article has analyzed the identification process of 16 female students of Yasouj University in cyberspace by a qualitative methodology. The data collection technique was an unstructured and semi-structured interview; and non-random, purposeful and maximum diversity sampling method was used for sampling. The generated data analized by the three stages strategy of open, axial and selective coding. Based on the content of the interviews, the causes, contexts and consequences of these girls' use of virtual space were categorized and analyzed under the ten main categories of "the essence of communication, expressing different aspects of oneself, purposeful use to provide various needs and services, satisfying psychological-physiological desires, filling free time, psychological and skilfull personality weakness, family life disorder, different selves presented in cyberspace, capabilities of cyberspace in modern life and scope of cyberspace damages. On a more abstract level, it can be said that the core category of "virtual space as an echo of the real space and a breeding ground of real-pretend selves”, to some extent, reflects the process of identification of the studied girls in the virtual space which is caused by the two-way effect of the psychological-physiological-social characteristics of the girls and their biocultural-social living conditions in the real space of the society.
parvaneh faramarziani; Baqer Ansari; muhammed soltanifar; َafsaneh mozafari
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The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a conceptual model of strategies to protect children's privacy in cyberspace in two qualitative-quantitative methods. After reviewing the background and theoretical concepts of the research, using the qualitative method of in-depth interviews with 18 experts ...
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The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a conceptual model of strategies to protect children's privacy in cyberspace in two qualitative-quantitative methods. After reviewing the background and theoretical concepts of the research, using the qualitative method of in-depth interviews with 18 experts in the field of communication, law and psychology with purposive probability sampling method, the research data reached theoretical saturation, interpreted using thematic analysis and model A concept was created. The research findings showed six comprehensive themes and 17 organized themes as the main branches of strategies to protect children's privacy in cyberspace, which include: social (social environment), cultural (culture-building), legal (legislation, preparation requirements). Consent, access requirements), educational (media literacy, content production, critical thinking, formal education, knowledge management, development of literacy and thought), economic (investment) management (technical requirements, policy, training, organizational security, support Institutional). In the quantitative section, in order to fit the model, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 160 child specialists and activists who were selected by relative sampling method and Morgan-Krejcie formula. The descriptive findings of the quantitative part showed that the total index of the solutions is at a desirable level and the inferential findings of the quantitative part of the research using factor analysis showed that the reproduced model has the necessary fit. The conceptual model used in the formulation of strategies and laws necessary for policy-making and planning to protect the privacy of children in cyberspace..
Seyed Kamaleddin Mousavi; Hadise Shams Ravandi
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This study aims to identify the intensity and types of online love in cyberspace in the shadow of social characteristics of users. Ideas of Sternberg, Lee, Bawman, Illuze, Giddens and Ben Zeev about Love are consiers as the theoretical base of the research. Statistical population contains all citizens ...
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This study aims to identify the intensity and types of online love in cyberspace in the shadow of social characteristics of users. Ideas of Sternberg, Lee, Bawman, Illuze, Giddens and Ben Zeev about Love are consiers as the theoretical base of the research. Statistical population contains all citizens of Kashan city in 2020, out of which 384 persons were selected via a non-probability sampling method. Findings showed that different types of online love have been formed in cyberspace, although the amount and intensity of love in these species are different from each other. The most common and widespread type of online love among the respondents was the love of fun and entertainment (Ludus), and it followed by pragmatic and matchmaking loves respectively.At the same time, the widespresd types of online love differ according to the age of respondants, their marital status, level of education, friendship duration and their jobs. Interestingly, the infidelity love contains only 4% of the total amount of online romantic relationships. Moreover, there is a relationship between the types of online love with the attitudes toward the Internet and the Internet environments.
Abdolrahim Qaseminejad; mohammadsadegh NASROLLAHI
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The issue of impact on the audience or the communicatee is one of the most fundamental issues in the science of culture and communication. The emergence of internet and social media according to its interrelated and multi aspect nature, not only has the doubled importance of understanding of audience ...
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The issue of impact on the audience or the communicatee is one of the most fundamental issues in the science of culture and communication. The emergence of internet and social media according to its interrelated and multi aspect nature, not only has the doubled importance of understanding of audience but also has complicated the process of attracting the audience. The contest for catching audience has reached to a level that there are numerous options for the audience to choose. the decision of audience for joining a group or channel (the initial attraction) and being determined to continue the participation (maintenance) are the essential terms of influencing the audience. However, a short review on the ecology of social media, revels the serious weakness of cultural and religious groups and channels for attracting and maintaining the audience. This research, by referring to the study of successful persian channels in telegram, seeks to find out which policies are recommended for cultural and religious actors in atracting audiences.To answer this question, the semi-structured interviews with the audience of successful telegram channels were conducted and by using thematic analysis method, twenty-two recommendations were presented as the policies of attracting audience. The most important and frequent suggestions are the trust of users in the channel and its messages, time management of sending messages, diversity in the forms of message dissemination, diversity and comprehensiveness in the content of messages and observance of brevity in the submitted content.
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.
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.
n n; Mehdi Aghaee
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The present study was designed and conducted with the aim of comparing sincere relationships between Internet-dependent and non-Internet-dependent users among students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 1397. The research method is descriptive and survey technique and a questionnaire measurement ...
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The present study was designed and conducted with the aim of comparing sincere relationships between Internet-dependent and non-Internet-dependent users among students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 1397. The research method is descriptive and survey technique and a questionnaire measurement tool has been used to do it. Findings showed that the amount and type of intimate relationships between Internet-dependent and non-Internet-dependent users are different. Among the dimensions of "intimate relationships", the dimension of "level of closeness to another" in Internet-dependent users differs from non-dependent users. The findings also showed a significant difference between "value sharing dimension" and "joint activity" in Internet-dependent and non-Internet-dependent users. This means that cordial relationships among Internet-dependent users in the aforementioned dimensions are weaker than those of non-Internet users. But intimate relationships in the "dimension of knowing each other" and "the dimension of emotional relationships" between Internet users and non-Internet users are no different.
ali ghanbari barzain
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Abstract Changes made by leisure styles in Iranian society, and growing tendency of Iranian teenagers towards digital leisure have led to changes in their religious behavior and attitudes. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of online computer games on teenagers' religiosity, religious ...
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Abstract Changes made by leisure styles in Iranian society, and growing tendency of Iranian teenagers towards digital leisure have led to changes in their religious behavior and attitudes. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of online computer games on teenagers' religiosity, religious identity, and the type of their relationships with their families. Following this aim, Castelles' theory, Sherry Turkle's theory of The Second Self, Thurlow's theory of Johari Window, and Mask of Identity theory of Branda Dunt, Stark, and Shojaei Zand have been used in theoretical bases. This article is the result of a research done on 3800 female high school students and 15-17-year-old male students in Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Ahwaz, Mashhad, Shiraz, Karaj, and Rasht in 2013. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between online and computer games and the religious identity and level of religiosity of teenage boys and girls.
farhad seraji; saeed sharifi rahnamo; Ashab Habibzadeh
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The purpose of this study was to identify the motives of secondary school boy students in Hamadan in using social networking networks. This research was carried out using a hybrid approach and exploratory design. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview was conducted using a phenomenological ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify the motives of secondary school boy students in Hamadan in using social networking networks. This research was carried out using a hybrid approach and exploratory design. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview was conducted using a phenomenological method with twenty students selected using snowball sampling method. The interview questions focused on the motivations and causes of using teenagers from social networks, which was analyzed using the Smith Five-Step Method. Then, in order to extend the scope of the findings through descriptive and survey method, a researcher-made questionnaire of 22 questions was distributed among 300 male secondary school students. Validity of the questionnaire was calculated using the views of seven experts in the field of cyberspace and its reliability was calculated by calculating the Cronbach's alpha of r = 0.88. The findings suggest that students use new social media for new information, entertainment and entertainment, communication and interaction with others, and self-expression. In the meantime, access to new information is the most important motive for adolescent use and self-expression is the lowest.
Mohammad Hosein Saei; Seyyed Vahid Aghili
Volume 15, Issue 28 , March 2015, , Pages 107-136
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There are many disagreements among elites about development pattern modeling in Islamic republic of Iran. One of these disagreements is basis of development pattern modeling of communication system and cyberspace in general and disagreements such as modeling principles of domestic social networks in ...
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There are many disagreements among elites about development pattern modeling in Islamic republic of Iran. One of these disagreements is basis of development pattern modeling of communication system and cyberspace in general and disagreements such as modeling principles of domestic social networks in particular. This research deals with the question that whether or not the cyberspace, internet, social media and social networks can be policymaking, manage and planning development on basis of culture and identity of each country. If so, what set of principles should govern the process. The mainstream materialistic approaches of Iranian researchers consider culture to be a dependent variable against independent variables such as technology. So look for type and depths of cyberspace, media and social networks effects on our culture and identity. Unlike that approach, we used Q method to investigate the mindset of experts, managers, policymakers and active users of the cyberspace regarding the role that culture and identity might play in the formation of domestic social networks. Analyzing the questionnaires returned by influential activists of the cyberspace, we found five primary mindsets regarding the aforementioned issue, dimensions of which are briefly elaborated. Finally, based on our understanding of the investigated mindsets and their interrelationships, a few operational suggestions are recommended to policymakers in this field.
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Volume 14, Issue 21 , May 2013, , Pages 81-101
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Growing concerns regarding preserving as well as promoting the possibility of a fair and peaceful coexistence, both at national and transnational levels, has unprecedentedly increased the importance of dialogue. Accordingly, factors affecting dialogue have presumably been the subject of a number of studies. ...
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Growing concerns regarding preserving as well as promoting the possibility of a fair and peaceful coexistence, both at national and transnational levels, has unprecedentedly increased the importance of dialogue. Accordingly, factors affecting dialogue have presumably been the subject of a number of studies. Among the given factors, the virtual social networks have great effects on all areas of the lives. This study is to investigate the effects of social networks on cross-cultural dialogues within virtual public sphere. In this framework, it is argued that although the possibility of communication and exchange of information promotes the opportunity of dialogue, it is restrictive and confounding as well. This restriction essentially arises from the uneven distribution of facilities associated with these technologies; the special status of virtual public sphere confounds the cross-cultural dialogues, as well. Indeed, virtual social networks, due to the virtual public sphere they make, can confound dialogue and cross-cultural dialogues.
