Journal of Culture-Communication Studies

This paper seeks to study the Iranian microcelebrities and their use of the new media to entering at the star system. Efforts have been made to examine the role of social networks in deepening the celebrity culture and creating a new kind of "stardom" by examining five of the Instagram users. For study ... Read More

Semiotic Analysis of Encoding Methods in the “René Magritte” Artworks

Sadreddin Taheri

Volume 19, Issue 41 , June 2018, , Pages 177-194

https://doi.org/10.22083/jccs.2018.116980.2353

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Encoding and decoding are among the key processes of cultural and social communications. This article has tried to clarify the concepts of quadruple semiotic codes for visual communications proposed by Arthur Asa Berger; and to pursue these codes in the paintings of René Magritte, the well-known ... Read More

Ethnic Groups Represented in the Collections of Television Hot

Zarrin Zardar- Mohammad Fathinia

Volume 14, Issue 24 , March 2014, , Pages 41-62

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This paper aims to describe how “Mazani’s” are represented in TV Series Paytakht (Capital) and identify the types of codes and stereotypes that are used in the representation. To achieve this purpose, 16 remarkable sequences selected and analyzed semiotcally. Findings show that three ... Read More

Consumption Representation in Iranian Movies of War (Sacred Defense) Era

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Volume 13, Issue 17 , May 2012, , Pages 76-119

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Movies reflect our ideas about fundamental social, economic, and political issues. This paper studies how Iranian movies made during Iraq imposed war on Iran called sacred defense era in Iran, represent consumption of goods. The main question is how Iranian movies represent consumption and how consumption ... Read More

A Semiotic Analysis of Images of Iranian Life Style: Studying Visual Self-Reflection of Iranian Users in Yahoo 360 Social Media

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Volume 12, Issue 15 , December 2011, , Pages 119-149

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This article will analyze the mechanism of framing visual identities in Yahoo 360 social media and how it is reflected among the audience. To be clearer, we intend to use a semiotic analysis to study identity-related image-makings and how they are related to reflection of life styles in Iranian ... Read More This article will analyze the mechanism of framing visual identities in Yahoo 360 social media and how it is reflected among the audience. To be clearer, we intend to use a semiotic analysis to study identity-related image-makings and how they are related to reflection of life styles in Iranian virtual society. We will use Baudrillard's concept of hyper reality and simulation to explain the way users of yahoo 360 represent themselves and their identity. Similar to Baudrillard we also consider the contemporary Iranian society to be a visual and virtual world. The problematic of this paper revolves around the question of how in visual definition of Iranian life style, the simulation has replaced representation and reality has changed into hyper reality. This is a problem than can result in creation of a lack of consistency between reality and pseudo-reality or virtual reality in personal and collective images and dreams and in how people organize their mind. Methodologically, our research falls in the category of the interpretive and semiotic methods paradigm. Some of our findings indicate that there is little connection between the photos we analyzed and their contextual reality and simulation has replaced representation of life styles in choosing and placing the photos in yahoo 360 social media. Our findings are not directed at drawing generalizations and since we selected the samples consciously, this is only a collection of case studies of photos piled up to contribute to a debate on epistemological aspects of communications today and its particular computer-assisted communication. For example, we discovered that an intimate communication with virtual social media's atmosphere, compared to other internet sites, will result in believability of these social media and will expand non-Iranian image making in everyday life in Iran. Such problem indicates the necessity of filling up the visual vacuum about Iranian life which we tried here to cover part of it

Decoding the Myth in Symbolic Systems

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Volume 12, Issue 13 , September 2011, , Pages 185-202

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In this paper we try to introduce Semiotics method as one of the newest analytical methods in cultural studies, then the myth in the symbolic systems will be analyzed , as well as decoding of myth will be considered and both of them is analyzed by Roland Barthes's view in mythology . There is an ... Read More

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Iranian microcelebrities in the Selfie Frame The semiotic study of microcelebrity in Instagram

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Semiotic Analysis of Encoding Methods in the “René Magritte” Artworks

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Ethnic Groups Represented in the Collections of Television Hot

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Consumption Representation in Iranian Movies of War (Sacred Defense) Era

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A Semiotic Analysis of Images of Iranian Life Style: Studying Visual Self-Reflection of Iranian Users in Yahoo 360 Social Media

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Decoding the Myth in Symbolic Systems

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