NEW MEDIA STUDIES
Year:2016 | Volume:2 | Issue:6 |Papers Count:6

The virtual social networks have become popular among the young generation, one of the most popular networks, Facebook. Infiltration and increase the number of Facebook users among young generation. Unforgivable social networking could affect the quality of the formation of social and family relationships. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, attachment styles and family solidarity with the Facebook users. Recent research on high school students in Tehran (204 user, user, no user 103). On being asked showed that 1) the predictors of family cohesion and emotional intelligence variables could significantly predict the user and no user, 2) between family cohesion and the use of Facebook, there is a significant negative correlation, 3) between the sub scales less family cohesion are tending more towards the use of Facebook and the use of Facebook and there is no attachment styles.

Professional structure and function of TV News Channels in the past two decades have been affected by the emergence of quasi-independent news channels, development of new media, and also quick release of social networks. This issue has caused the emergence of new news channels with professional structures in the Middle East to enter the media competition. In this new competitive environment, the television networks to maintain their position should be looking to take advantage of the capabilities of new media and social networks.Due to the use of social networks, especially Facebook, by Al-Alam Channel during the Arab Spring, this study clarifies and analyzes the status of this Network in use of the potentials of Facebook and promotion of communication with the Facebook’s audience.The findings of this study show that although Al-Alam Channel which has received later using of Facebook in comparison with regional and international rivals, it has been successful during the period of 8 months by expanding its sphere of influence in the social networks in the use of Facebook’s features and establishing effective communication with its own audience in the Arab world.

This paper by referring to the new media space which in different factors influencing the competition between active media have made the today media audiences as segmented audiences, has considered Persian satellite TV networks as one of active elements in this space which through using entertainment based programs such as different kind of shows as a form or genre of TV programs, have attracted some of Iranian audiences. In this paper by introducing main Persian TV channels and main entertainment programs broadcasted at 3 satellite TV networks, the factors influencing on attraction of the audiences to these 3 networks have been analyzed. Some suggestions according to the analyses have been suggested to media & cultural policy makers. Focus on entertainment, using structural decorations, focus on considerable presence of women at programs, focus on problem solution, focus on pop culture and art products, managing the schedule of broadcasting program are the main methods used in these networks to attract the audiences.

This paper offers an interdisciplinary study on mechanisms of homophily in virtual social network at Graduate University of Zanjan. Despite the significance of homophily, not many studies have been done on it. It is for this reason this paper sets its objective to study homophily in Iran and considers its unit of analysis to be Graduate University of Zanjan.Theoretically the paper uses a theoretical synthesis based on what homophily means in the discipline of Network Science and Technology and combines it with the concept of homophily in Communication and Sociology.Methodologically, the paper collects its data from among students at Graduate University of Zanjan during a period of 2009 and 2014. We used some interviews and set up some face-to face interviews with questionnaires in addition to observations in order to complete the data gathering. Then we calculated the number of connections with similar characteristics of individuals and subtracted them from total connections expected in a random situation so to measure homophily. Here the paper has measured characteristics or variables such as gender, graduate degree level, discipline, city of residence, marital status, and year of entering university. Some of the results indicate that students, who use social network of Graduate University of Zanjan, select their friends based on the following characteristics and in the following order: similarity in gender, marital status, degree level, discipline, year of entering university, and city of residence. Our observations indicate that religious norms play a special role in communicating with opposite sex.

The subject of this article is “U.S Cyber Diplomacy Influence on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace (Case Study: Voice of America Website)”. U.S government tried to implement various cultural, social and educational programs to convince people about its foreign policy goals, and it became known as public diplomacy. Considering Iran’s high stance in U.S foreign policy, its Department of State launched various cyber diplomacy projects including Voice of America website to influence Iranians. The key question of this article is: What is the Influence of Radio Farda website, on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace? For this purpose, qualitative content analysis of Voice of America website and sending questionnaires has been used. The hypothesis is that, comparing to Iranian Internet users who do not read Voice of America website content, the Voice of America website users are more influenced by cyber diplomacy content and messages and this leads to negative attitude towards Iranian society in economic, social, cultural and political aspects.

The main object of the present thesis is to understand the representation of the "Second Wife" in Iranian cinema in the past two decades. To achieve this goal, we have overwied the theoretical concepts of representation and cinema as a medium of representation. We used qualitative analysis and semiology technic in this thesis. Based on the pattern of Selby and Cowdory we have analyzed the technical codes. The refrences and implications in the movies have been found by Barthes narrative codes. By focusing on these patterns, which were tried in four films: "Shokaran", "Zan-e Dovom", "Pato zamin nazar" and "zandegi-e khosousi" that have been choosen on purpose; the second wife character has been analyzed. And the cinematic representation and the stereotypes of the second wife is revealed. By results of this study it can be said that the stereotypes like "find emotional support", "modern woman", "divorced woman", "seduction", " guiltless and innocence", "solitude", "motherhood", "religion", "secret relationship" and "dishonor" are the major stereotypes were raised in these films. In these film the second wife, though often initially appeared as a seductive and glamorous woman, gradually is seeking for being a real wife and start a family. Finally in representation of second wife in relationship we assumed that the second wife is guilless and innocent. In second marriage we blame the married man for starting the relationship.