Culture-Communication Studies
Year:2019 | Volume:20 | Issue:46 (78) |Papers Count:10

Today, the use of mobile social networks has become an important and sensitive issue. It is rooted in several social factors. In the present era, the level of users’ skills has also become a vital issue for human societies. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between users’ skills and positive and negative uses of mobile social networks. To conduct this survey, a multi-stage cluster sampling method was used and 385 young people in Yazd, Iran were selected. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire that was validated with content and structural validity as well as Cronbach's alpha coefficient for reliability. The findings showed that there were significant relationships between the users’ skills and negative and positive uses of mobile social networks. The users’ skills explained 0. 33% and 0. 14% of the variance of positive and negative uses of mobile social networks, respectively. The results of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) also showed that the model had a suitable goodness of fit.

Now a day’ s jewel designers have been used motifs which have been taken from Persian traditional culture and typography. These types of motifs were led to writing motifs and development of discursive challenge about the identity of jewelry. The aim of this study is how new signs of “ written motifs” have clearly appeared in Persian contemporary jewelry. This research has been done by the descriptive and comparative method based on Laclau and Mouffe's discursive analysis and then two group of jewelry which are inspired by “ writing motifs” were analyzed by “ semiotics of writing” . In conclusion, regardless of constraints of merely traditional decorative functions of the jeweler, the emphasis on the importance of the context of a written motif, the transmutation of massage to the audience and at last but not least conversion of jewelry to media are the main factors of the transformation of a visual motif to written motifs.

Framing is one of the effective ways through the media that shape public opinion about the events and issues of the day. Planning to design appropriate news frames to enhance the quality of life of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients and increasing community awareness of this disease is necessary. In this regard, the aim of this study was to identify and analyze the news frames in relation to MS. Following a qualitative research approach, the research’ s population consisted news reports released by the ISNA, IRIB, IRNA and MEHR about this disease and 133 reports (from March to October 2016) was selected through purposive sampling. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The final findings of the study revealed that three main frames called "specification of MS", "problems of MS patients" and "Support and Hope" and sub-themes associated with each of these frames have been introduced and analyzed. This research as a starting point in the field of media policy in relation to MS is that more research will be needed.

During the Qajar rule, communication with Europe increasingly was done. Sending Iranian artists to Europe And entry of elements such as postcards, Stamp and Finally, the invention of a photographic camera causes a profound chang On the attitude of Iranian artists, especially painters. This article was done In order to answer this fundamental question: Elements such as photos, postcards and stamps What has influenced Iranian art? This article was done in a comparative-historical method. Also Field studies was done with presence in place And record graffiti. The result of the studies showed: In most wall art topics, Features of Western art It can be seen. How to stand, The type of women's dress, Can be mentioned And the reasons for this effect are the entry of a photographic camera, postcards and stamps.

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 of Instagram pages, the qualitative method of social semantics have been used. This research is the first internal research that addresses the phenomenon of Iranian microcelebrities, and in particular how they use Selfie To enter at the star system. The findings of this paper show that with the growth of social networks, the celebrity culture in Iran has been changed. The traditional star system, which had hitherto been based on hierarchies and specific norms of the mass media, has now undergone a change. The consequences of this transformation are the entry of ordinary people into the star system. In the meantime, a major way of presenting a desirable self is Selfie images that are often based on gender discourse. By publishing Selfie images, the viewer enters into the most personal moods of life belonging to these emerging stars. This shows that the mechanisms for spread of microcelebrity in social networks are changing the important aspects of the culture and the boundaries of privacy. Changes in the Celebrity culture can be correlated with other Macrocultural changes such as increasing individualism, deepening of the secularism and weakening of some of the indices of religiosity in Iranian society.

Galleries are the meeting point of the values of the artistic and the market community; galleries accord the aesthetic values with the values of the market by determining the price of art works. This accordance is more important for emerging artists, as it can enable them to continue their activities. In this article, for studying the alignment and conflict between the values of the artistic community and the market community, the function of galleries and art fairs with consideration on their role in introducing emerging artists have been studied. Therefore, the concept of emerging artists has been addressed first; then the field study of the annual exhibition of ‘ Haft Negah’ has been considered, and the role of this event in introducing the emerging artists into the Iranian art community has been critically evaluated. The methodology is based on a field study (in four periods 2012 to 2015) of ‘ Haft Negah’ in which artists whose works have been sold at least in three periods were evaluated, and some of them were identified as emerging artists. The works of these emerging artists were evaluated by a group of referees (consisted of nine critics, gallery owners and artists). The research results showed that there is a great difference of opinion between the values of the art community activists and the beneficiaries of the Iran’ s art market; In this market, some criteria such as innovation and novelty of the artist have the least importance (the lowest coefficient of influence in the regression model);

Studying the Effect and Function of American MobiMobile cinema as an effective propaganda tool has had more importance and expansion, especially, after the world war two and changes of dominant techniques in the world. When the world great powers employed the cultural diplomacy strategies to stabilize their situation and dominance on colonies and third world countries using propaganda tools including mobile cinema, which Herbert I. Schiller called it cultural Imperialism. Iran is one of the few countries in which the American mobile cinema has long activated. This paper has considered what was been the causes of presence of American mobile cinema in Iran; and it has concluded using the existing reports and documents through descriptive and analytic methods: American mobile cinema has started its operations through the program of Truman four principle (Point IV Program) and due to prevent Communism influence and producing the protective belt to American interests, and it was gradually operated through showing the educational and recreational films to change views and propagate the American life style, in one side, and through news and propagative films, in other side, stabilizing its supported governance aimed to dominate Iran. le Cinema in Iran

Shia poetry with variety of concepts – approaches – practices and the forms of poem in different historical periods could continue in form of countinuos and dynamic process. The lovers of ahle-beit with love and enthusiasm despite the obstacles and threats abound created the most sincere shia literature before safavieh. Yet necessary researchs in collections of poems left by pass havnt shaped but this the out shows that shia poetry could both the basin form and content form add to the diversity and richness of Persian literature. Including the information of new species and sub species is that in this article we want to introduce some samples that we extract them from handwritten poem collections. The classification of the species is according to their content that is mentioned in beiginig of poetry as title. The titles that later overtime and by repetition is represents a kind and literature genre in religious literature. In this article for the first time (vafat nameh) genres will proposed and introduced some samples of them from courts and manuscripts as evidence brought obviously with deeper check can arrive to new samples in shia poetry.

Satan is a general term for an entity that, before human creation, has had a long history of worshiping the Lord. He was driven from God's temple by refusing to prostrate to Adam; and put his eternal enmity towards Bani Adam. Descriptions and interpretations about Satan are not limited to the celestial scriptures and include other written sources. The existence of illustration in some of these books has led to the formation of examples of Satan's image among them. In the old visual culture of Iran, Satan's images have been featured in some illustrated manuscripts. These images, which we know as painting works, represent the various images of Satan in accordance with the subject matter of the text. The present paper focuses on the recognition of the visual culture dominant in Iranian painting and its main purpose is examining the various narratives of the narrators of Satan and classifying them. The questions posed in the paper, respectively, describe the various visual narratives of the devil in painting, the various literary sources written for illustrating the images and the amount of text and image matching. By answering these questions, the image of the devils in the painting was categorized into various forms of the demons, angels, humans and hybrid being; images which are based on a wide variety of literary sources, and in addition to the effect of the text, have also benefited from the artistic taste of painters.

Leisure is a phenomenon that is modern and belongs to the modern urban community. The space of pre-modern cities and villages did not require any modern leisure for a variety of reasons. In this paper, based on three issues in leisure literature, namely, the relationship between the agent and the structure, the relationship between gender and urban spaces, and the relationship between modernity, lifestyle and leisure, an authoritative theoretical and empirical analysis of the real-life situation of women has been attempted. Provide different lifetimes. The research has been based on two concepts based on the Giddens' notion of "Citizenship Leisure" and "Stracturation of Leisure" and has gathered some evidence in this regard. Information from 1200 women residing in Tehran was surveyed using a questionnaire and after various stages of factor analysis it was determined that there were 11 different leisure styles among women, and secondly, the existing status of women's leisure He was very dependent on the family and needed to distance himself from the home and family. Women are mostly dissatisfied with their free time and spend most of their time with their families. Research has shown significant differences between different generations in terms of leisure excellence.