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.
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.
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.
