List of articles (by subject) Social problems related to media, communications and cyberspace
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Open Access Article
1 - IRIB and Addiction Prevention, Content Analysis of Shock Documentaries with an Emphasis on Addiction
amir Hajiali asgari soraya ahmadi parnaneh PishnamaziMedia has been a significant role to shape the thoughts, beliefs, values, culture and awareness. Today with the intelligent use of media, it is possible to introduce social issues, prevent and confrontation. Addiction is one of the most common social issues that trouble MoreMedia has been a significant role to shape the thoughts, beliefs, values, culture and awareness. Today with the intelligent use of media, it is possible to introduce social issues, prevent and confrontation. Addiction is one of the most common social issues that trouble our country. Therefore, addiction prevention can play an important role in reducing social harm. According to its social responsibility, the national media has always sought to confront and fight against social harms, including addiction. The documentary "Shock" was among the programs that were produced and broadcasted on the third channel of national TV in order to deal with addiction. The present research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the performance of Shock documentary. The theoretical framework of this theory was based on theories of social responsibility, framing and Tannehill's health model. The research method, quantitative content analysis and data collection tools were reverse questionnaire. 8 programs in the period of 18 months from the beginning of 2019 to September of 2019 were selected purposely. The findings show: the type of attitude towards addiction is mainly patient-oriented and the approach of the program emphasizes primary prevention. The way of modeling about the prevention of addiction, introduction of risk factors, and industrial drugs have received more attention. Also, according to the results of this research, friends and therapeutic motivations were among the factors of tendency towards addiction. Manuscript profile -
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2 - Semiotics of Popular Social Documentaries of Aparat program BBC Persian Network
azam deh soufiyaniToday, media is an integral part of people's lives. People are interested in hearing and seeing social issues through the media in order to be aware of the dangers that threaten their lives. Social documentaries are an opportunity to inform and raise awareness about soc MoreToday, media is an integral part of people's lives. People are interested in hearing and seeing social issues through the media in order to be aware of the dangers that threaten their lives. Social documentaries are an opportunity to inform and raise awareness about social issues, and on the other hand, they provide an arena for showing the country's issues and problems in foreign media. The main question in the current research is, what image of Iran is represented in documentaries about Iran does the BBC Persian program broadcast? Social semiotics method and the "Idema" approach applied as the research method three films "And the Spider Came", "Iranian Kidney Auction" and "It's always late for freedom" were analyzed. According to the findings, the main topics of the documentary films of the Aparat program about Iran are women and children with the theme of absolute inferiority; Religion as the cause of society's problems and combined with superstitions; Inefficient and weak government institutions; culture and customs express a very traditional and petrified society. The discourse of opposition and confrontation with the Islamic Republic in this network, not only in news and analytical programs but also continues in the form of a completely believable narrative documentaries. Manuscript profile -
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3 - Investigating Twitter campaigns of Violence Against Women
shima nasertork ali delavar afsaneh mozaffari tahmores shiriOne of the most important topics that social networks -Twitter- have paid attention to is violence against women in Iran. The most important theoretical support in the emergence of these campaigns is the reflection of the texts about violence against women. One of the m MoreOne of the most important topics that social networks -Twitter- have paid attention to is violence against women in Iran. The most important theoretical support in the emergence of these campaigns is the reflection of the texts about violence against women. One of the most important factors in the emergence of such waves is the important activists in the field of these social networks, who use their followers to reflect these contents. The most important campaigns in terms of the number of tweets and retweets was the "Girls of the Revolution" campaign. The aim of the research is to analyze the performance of Twitter in reflecting the content of violence against women in Iran based on the most important campaigns that have emerged in the last decade. This issue was analyzed based on the theoretical foundations of types of violence and networked movements. The research method is the content analysis of tweets and hashtags related to campaigns from 2016 to 2016. The research results showed that the most important themes are about social and political violence against women. In this regard, some campaigns and hashtags have caused insecurities in the society the most important of which was the campaign of the girls of Enghelab Street in terms of the number of tweets and retweets. the analysis of the themes of tweets showed the absence of news, posts and tweets of people related to campaigns and hashtags. Manuscript profile