ali rabiee; zahra zakerinasrabadi; nasrin ghalani
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Identifying the providing factors of common identity in the areas of immigration is essential to prevent multiplicity of identity and cultural conflict. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of three types of social capital – bonding, bridging and linking- on the construction of social ...
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Identifying the providing factors of common identity in the areas of immigration is essential to prevent multiplicity of identity and cultural conflict. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of three types of social capital – bonding, bridging and linking- on the construction of social and national identity in the immigrants. Population is all of the 15 to 45 years old immigrants who have migrated to "Shahinshahr", one of the immigrants absorber cities in Isfahan. 150 of those were selected by stratified sampling and were studied. The results show that, despite its high level of participation and confidence in the bonding networks rather than other networks (mean equals 4.2), just the linking social capital, in the sense of relations between people with different levels of power, explains %23 of the variance in social identity and 41% of the variance in national identity. Therefore, the main factor providing common identity and consensus is to go beyond the limited family and kinship networks. These results adapt with conditions of social networks in developing countries. In these countries, the useful and long connections between individuals and governmental networks is effective in the elimination of alienation and commitment to national common values.
Ali Rabiee; Rezvaneh Erfani Hossein Pour
Volume 14, Issue 23 , December 2013, , Pages 171-194
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Media usage, as a form of cultural consumption, is the process of communicating with the media products and using the content to reach particular goals. The increasing accessibility and consumption of international TV channels in Iran and the competition between these channels and Iranian ones, is important ...
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Media usage, as a form of cultural consumption, is the process of communicating with the media products and using the content to reach particular goals. The increasing accessibility and consumption of international TV channels in Iran and the competition between these channels and Iranian ones, is important for media studies. Studying the audiences' readings, as well as content and organizational analysis, would be helpful to understand the hidden aspects of this subject.
Present paper is a try to understand Iranian students' readings of one of the programs in Voice of America TV channel: The Parazit. Applying the perception theory, we studied the functions and read the media content in different ways and, therefore, their consumption of political gratifications of their consumption. The results of the deep interviews with 15 students show that the youth opponent channels does not mean disagreement with whole positions of Islamic Republic of Iran. Instead, the critical approach of the Parazit to some public behaviors was interesting for them.
