Research Paper
Nematollah Fazeli
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This paper presents and formulates an approach on emotion or feeling changes in contemporary Iran. In the Introductory, I formulate a problematic approach to analyze emotions and feelings in Iran. In the second part, I introduce and explain the key theoretical concepts including Sociological Imagination, ...
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This paper presents and formulates an approach on emotion or feeling changes in contemporary Iran. In the Introductory, I formulate a problematic approach to analyze emotions and feelings in Iran. In the second part, I introduce and explain the key theoretical concepts including Sociological Imagination, the Complexity theory, the Cultural paradigm, the Structure of feelings, and Triple emotional patterns consisting of the Residual, Dominant, and the Emergent patterns. I draw these concepts from works of Raymond Williams, Edgar Morin, Alain Touraine and C. Right Mills. In the last part and the main body of the paper, I examine the Iranian contemporary structure of feelings according to the tripartite patterns and in each pattern I differentiate the main elements and features of the pattern explained. The general postulation of this study is that human feelings are social contractions and therefore all feelings are social and cultural. Accordingly, to examine and defamiliarize feeling we need to consider socio-historical contexts that would construct and change the feelings. This view is against “essentialist approach” which analyzes Iranians Based on a pattern of eternal and immutable emotions which is quite pervasive among the masses and ordinary people. Methodologically, this paper is a conceptual and cultural analysis to defamiliarize and problematize the Iranian contemporary feelings and emotions.
Research Paper
mohammad gholi minavand
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Iran is the tenth country in the world in terms of cultural heritage, human civilization and tourist attractions, but in terms of the number of tourists visiting the country, it is in the lower ranks. This research has used the depth interview technique to find out views of media, communication and tourism ...
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Iran is the tenth country in the world in terms of cultural heritage, human civilization and tourist attractions, but in terms of the number of tourists visiting the country, it is in the lower ranks. This research has used the depth interview technique to find out views of media, communication and tourism experts to address the obstacles and strategies for the establishment of tourism television in Iran. Fourteen experts, who are familiar with the subject, were interviewed in accordance with the principle of saturation. In one of the two important questions of this research, interviewees have been interviewed about the challenges and problems of launching a TV network and In another, the identification of the primary model of a tourism TV has been considered. The most important results are: The majority of the experts have identified the problems as legal, political, economic and professional. The legal problem relates solely to the exclusivity of radio and television. From the experts' point of view, professional issues include five categories of managerial, technical, human resources, audience engagement, and competition with state-owned television. The interviewees also pointed out that the financial and economic challenges including costliness of media production and the costly nature of the work of the media can cause economic problems in setting up a tourism network. From the perspective of experts, the pattern of this network of tourism is public media model; a media that needs to be focused on the audience and its programs should be produced and distributed according to the audience's needs.
Research Paper
mohammadbagher khoramshad; ghader ashna
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One of the major issues about ISIL is that, despite global opposition and all-out military strikes under two, three, or multilateral coalitions against ISIS, how ISIS continues to remain until 2017. In response, this paper introduces a set of components for the sustainability of this group which is divided ...
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One of the major issues about ISIL is that, despite global opposition and all-out military strikes under two, three, or multilateral coalitions against ISIS, how ISIS continues to remain until 2017. In response, this paper introduces a set of components for the sustainability of this group which is divided into two levels: internal and external. At the internal level, “effective discursive factor in ISIS's survival”, “utilization of Social political dissatisfaction”, “economic-financial abilities", "fear and panic" and "propaganda" can be mentioned. At the external level, "the support of international powers", "Efforts to balance the power in the region", "Israel's security and engagement of the resistance front" are estimated as effective indicators for the survival of this group. These variables in a very complex and rational manner have led ISIS to be persevered for many years, in spite of all the efforts of the sovereign powers that tried to suppress it, and impose irreparable damages on the countries of Iraq and Syria and continue to be an international threat. The theoretical framework of this research is political Islam and research methodology is descriptive and analytical. The method of compilation of materials is libraries and documents.
Research Paper
hasan khojasteh; melika bordbar; SEYED VAHID AGHILI
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Today, the use of media around the world is very high and with the advent of technology, more opportunities have been created for audiences around the world in different situations, places, and with different behaviors. This opportunity has expanded the media sphere and has changed the means in which ...
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Today, the use of media around the world is very high and with the advent of technology, more opportunities have been created for audiences around the world in different situations, places, and with different behaviors. This opportunity has expanded the media sphere and has changed the means in which audience interacts and uses media. In recent decades, due to the dramatic changes in technology, economics, politics and society, the attitude and role of media audiences around the world has changed dramatically, which in turn has affected media strategies, content production as well as changes in business models of media. In the present study, Delphi futures study method is used and the views of 15 media professionals have been studied and analyzed regarding factors affecting consumption of future media audiences. The findings suggest that in the future audiences will not have any restrictions on the means, communication tools, time, and place of consumption of media and they can use the medium under any conditions. Furthermore their role will be constantly changing between the sender and the recipient (interactive communication model). These audiences have the power to choose from a wide range of content and services from different platforms and ultimately, they can generate content and become smart consumers, prosumers and producers, all of which are due to the audience segmentation in the media convergence environment.
Research Paper
mohammad heydarpourklidsar; Mansoor Vossoughi; Baghar saroukhani; mostefa azkia
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This research aims to answer this basic question that what was the most important cultural barrier in second Pahlavi era that impeded the Iran society in reaching political development? Also what were second Pahlavi´s main actions in depriving Iran society from achieving political development? ...
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This research aims to answer this basic question that what was the most important cultural barrier in second Pahlavi era that impeded the Iran society in reaching political development? Also what were second Pahlavi´s main actions in depriving Iran society from achieving political development? This article inspired by Weber´s approach in importance of culture and also by Engelhardt´s revised renewal approach by using historical and documentary research methods. To do this research, we have referred actual and virtual libraries and we have done analytical inspection and taking notes from books and original documents related to the subject of this research and conducting analysis accompanied with Meta-analysis. Findings showed that dictatorship and authoritarian culture governing over society and political system and autocratic and dictatorship management of Mohammad Reza Shah toward different institutions in society, suppression of civil society, sever censorship over publishing books and newspapers, dissolution of independent cultural and social associations and critical political parties which dependent on new middle class, and also interrupting free dynamic, critical intellectual flow, were among the most important cultural barrier of political development and failure of Iran´s society in reaching political development in second Pahlavi’s era.
Research Paper
SeyedAlireza Afshani; SeyedAlimohamad Mazidi sharafabadi; Monire Sadri
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Media literacy is a topic that takes into account the power of the audience to understand how the media works and how it works, and wants to turn this analysis into an habit and task for the audience. Accordingly, the present study has examined the relationship between cultural capital and media literacy ...
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Media literacy is a topic that takes into account the power of the audience to understand how the media works and how it works, and wants to turn this analysis into an habit and task for the audience. Accordingly, the present study has examined the relationship between cultural capital and media literacy among young people in Bafgh city. This research has been carried out using survey method and multi-stage cluster sampling on 384 individuals among youth in the city of Bafgh. Data were collected using researcher made questionnaires of cultural capital and media literacy. Data analysis was performed using SPSS and Amos software. Findings showed that between cultural capital and media literacy there was direct and significant relationship (p <0.001). Among the dimensions of cultural capital, the objective dimension had the strongest relationship with media literacy. Analysing the structural equations model, showed that the impact of cultural capital on media literacy is %0.57, which indicates the direct relationship between these two variables.
Research Paper
Seyyed Hossein Sharafoddin; Nematollah Karamokllahi; ali vahidi ferdowsi
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This research is trying to make a religious critical means for criticizing dramatic religious programs by using thematic analysis method and then, on the basis of this means, the study tries to criticize one of the religious Iranian serial made in Iran by the name of “Yousef”. In this study, ...
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This research is trying to make a religious critical means for criticizing dramatic religious programs by using thematic analysis method and then, on the basis of this means, the study tries to criticize one of the religious Iranian serial made in Iran by the name of “Yousef”. In this study, we have used narration studies and especially characterization studies and as a result, it can be said that Yousef and Yaqub characters in Yousef serial have not been characterized on the basis of the themes of prophets that they represent in Quran. In the case of Yaqub, it can be said that “patience and trust in God” are the core themes in the Qur’anic narration, but in characterizing Yaqub in the serial, the character has not been characterized thoroughly. Also In the case of Yusef, it can be said that “patience and virtue” are the core themes in the Qur’anic narration, but in characterizing Yusef in the serial, the character has not been characterized thoroughly as far as "virtue" is concerned, although characterizing “patience” is a proper one in the serial of Yousef.
Research Paper
zeinab rajabi; Khashayar Ghazizadeh
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The transformation of art in every period of artist’s life is affected by the social evolutions. One of the special historical periods associated with the specific social conditions in Iran that influenced on the art and artists, was the occurrence of the First and Second World War. The coincidence ...
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The transformation of art in every period of artist’s life is affected by the social evolutions. One of the special historical periods associated with the specific social conditions in Iran that influenced on the art and artists, was the occurrence of the First and Second World War. The coincidence of famine and poverty caused by these wars and the events of the horrible condition of Hussein Behzad’s life, in the childhood and adolescence, made him affected a lot by the social conditions. This paper, which aims at understanding the reflection of social events in Behzad's artworks, has been performed by descriptive-analytical methods and with library studies. In addition, it analyzes the content and visual structures of the works of the artist, and tries to answer this question: how do the social evolutions and the reflection of them affect the life and the artworks of Hossein Behzad? In this article, his life and artworks on the theme and visual structure that based on the reflection approach have been analyzed. The findings showed that social evolutions were clearly reflected in the theme and with the technical innovation of the artist in the visual structure of the works.
