MEDIA STUDIES
Year:2018 | Volume:13 | Issue:3 (42) |Papers Count:8

Today, alienation is regarded as one of the main concerns of sociologists. Alienation is defined from the values human and moral virtues and ignoring their genuine and lost guidance way. The purpose of this study was to exanimating the relationship between mass media and social alienation. So done by survey using the conducted questionnaire technique was performed. The population of this study, 380 students from the University of Tabriz, in 92-1391 and were selected through random sampling. Statistical analysis of experimental data in this study, ANOVA, t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient was used. The use of television, satellite, Internet, books and social alienation significant difference obtained Students are, however, the average level of the radio and journals, there was no significant difference in students and social alienation.

The present research studies the relationship between presence and interaction in virtual social networks and religious identity. This research is conducted in a survey method through stratified sampling. The statistical population of the study is the students of Sistan and Baluchestan University in the academic year 1393-1394 and the sample size is estimated using Cochran formula 400. Reliability and validity were obtained using Cronbach's alpha and formal validity. Also, for testing the validity of the research model, Amos software was used. Analysis of the findings shows that there is a significant negative relationship between religious identity in all its dimensions, ie, dimensional dimension, empirical dimension, religious dimension, ritual dimension, cognitive dimension and consequential dimension with Internet usage, membership in virtual social networks and the use of virtual social networks. In analyzing the structural equation model that was done using Amos, two variables such as Internet usage and the use of virtual social networks had a significant negative effect on religious identity. But the membership variable in virtual social networks did not have a significant effect on religious identity. Also, two variables observable virtual social network usage and Internet usage has a negative impact factor coefficient-0/135 and-0/175 on religious identity. In general, given the findings of this study can be concluded that virtual social networks, undermining their religious identity in all dimensions.

Organizations need skilled man powers, confident and decision-maker for competitiveness. Thus, for the last two decades, the empowerment of human resources has become one of the key topics for leading organizations and they have turned into investigating ways of workforce empowerment in order to gain upper hand in competitive markets. One of the key factors in empowerment is employee attitude. employee attitude consists of three parts: Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment and Task dependency. These three kinds of attitudes impact on professional journalistic activities. Upon this, the aim of this research is study of relationship between employee attitude and empowerment. cluster sampling has been used as sampling method in this research. 14 newspapers have been elected out of 58 national newspapers which are being published in Teheran. Asking for journalists ideas by questionnaires. at last 256 questionnaires filled out. SPSS software has been used for data analysis. Findings indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between employee attitude and empowerment. We also find out that salary is the worst part as their job satisfaction factors.

The themes and ideas of postmodernism have pervaded the cinema and have led to the creation of postmodern films. During the last years, several Iranian films have made based on postmodern themes. The current study aims to recognize the elements of postmodern cinema in the movie “ Have You another Apple? ” directed by Bayram Fazli in 2006. To this end, the concepts of Postmodernism and Postmodern Cinema have reviewed in the theoretical framework. Quantitative content analysis method was used in order to achieve the goals. The unit of analysis is “ scene” . Statistical population of this research is 90 scenes of movie “ Have You another Apple? ” Data were collected through the census method and were analyzed using SPSS. The findings have been analyzed based on “ intertextuality” and “ decline of metanarrative” . The result shows “ Have You another Apple? ” is a postmodern movie without a classic hero. It involves the audiences in storytelling. The film is dominated by a pseudo-surreal sphere. The postmodern films include lots of signifiers that their signified is made in audiences' minds. “ Have You another Apple? ” is full of signs and symbols. Many of scenes look like painting, so it could be concluded that the figure is dominant. The main character in “ Have You another Apple? ” is not like the heroes in classic films; he is immature and fool. In the most scenes of this movie, human is portrayed as a “ captive” . Based on the results characters rarely try to escape from oppression, and in the most scenes they surrender. At the end of the movie, nobody overcome the oppression. The movie denies the active and aware subject and the possibility of human liberation and emancipation. “ Have you another apple? ” ends while the main character running that reminds “ Sisyphus Cycle and the Futility” .

Social capital are considered is an important indicator of growth and development in every society. It seems one of the factors that can increase or decrease contribute to social capital, are the mass media. The present study was to investigate the relationship between watching television and social capital and its dimensions (social trust, social participation and social association). The main purpose, study of the relationship between watching TV and social capital and consequently the main hypothesis is that there is a significant relationship between the watching TV and social capital. Research methods is survey and techniques using a questionnaire. The population of the study, of people over 15 years old were Zarabad. Cochran's sample size formula 400 selected using Cluster sampling data have been collected. The results show that among the variables: age, sex and education are correlated with social capital and The dimensions of social capital, But the relationship between marital status, employment and income, and there is no significant relationship between social capital. The findings also show that the variables of the Watching TV, The watch domestic TV programs, the watch foreign TV programs, Type watching TV programs, Satisfaction of domestic TV programs, Satisfaction of foreign TV programs have a significant relationship with social capital and its dimensions.

Rhetorical conventions and genre features are among those formal and structural elements in world wide language systems which play a critical role in creating meaning and transfer of communicative message. Unfamiliarity of the translators of texts with specific purpose result in ignoring these conventions and features in target text which brings about a deficient translation. One of those professional settings in which this failure shows itself is journalism and media. Therefore the current research was an attempt to investigate different dimensions of this failure by genre analysis of a sample of media corpus translated by Iranians in Mehr News Agency. To this aim, the researcher adopted the Swalsian model of genre analysis (1990) and that of Halliday (1997). The findings submitted proofs on this deficiency and failure in translation. The results showed that some rhetorical conventions and Macro-structures of source text which carry function of the texts are missed in the in the translated texts in the target language. For the same reason, the researcher has employed theoretical and practical foundations of translation and those of second and foreign language teaching to offer approaches and solutions to this problem. These findings have implications for language teachers and learners, news translators, journalist and those who are involved in curriculum development of English for specific purposes.

The purpose of this study was to determine the cultural barriers of science development in universities from the viewpoint of faculty members in Azad University of Tehran North Branch. The research method was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of collecting data, a descriptive survey was used. The statistical population of this research was all faculty members in Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch. 536 people were selected by using Cochran sampling formula. 240 individuals were selected through random stratified sampling method. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale that had 54 items. The validity of the questionnaires was assessed based on the content validity of the questionnaires, based on the views of some of the statistical population and the structure by factor analysis method. After validation of the necessary terms, validity was confirmed and on the other hand, the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated at 0. 838 by Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was done on descriptive and inferential levels including one-sample t-test. The findings of the research showed that from the viewpoint of faculty members of Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, cultural weaknesses of science development in university in all five dimensions of cultural barriers In other words, values, norms, beliefs, organizational norms and informational system were presented below the comparisons of these dimensions at the level (p <0. 0001) and higher than the effective level.

This research has been conducted with the aim of understanding the existing and desirable structure of public relations structures in public universities. The statistical society of this research has been formed by director of public relations managers at in public universities. This research is carried out in a general method and the statistical society consists of 127 public relations officials of universities and higher education which, 108 people have completed the questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of questions on the current stare of the organizational structure of "what is it" and a general question of the desirable situation "what it should be" and for analyzing the data, descriptive statistics tables were adopted and the following results were obtained: After reviewing the profile of the pertiupants, the findings related to the assessment of the organizational structure of the public relations at public universities and higher education institutions were studied. In this study, the largest organizational structure is "office" and the smallest organizational structures are "the general administration" and "management". A sign can't number of public relations officials work under direct supervision of the head of the university in which this has a major impact on the independence of public relations. It is worth mentioning that the title of post at universities and higher education institutions is a function of organizational structure and participation in various universities showing some confusion and uncertainty in the implementation of public relations responsibilities in universities. Considering that the spokesperson of the institute is considered to be very heavy responsibility, but more than half of the public relations officials of the universities are concerned about it. But other aspects of communicating with the mass media, having a consultant's name, presence in the system of suggestions, presence in the system of suggestions, and presence in the policy-making process for the organization.