نشریه مطالعات رسانه های نوین
سال سوم شماره 9 (بهار 1396)

The purpose of this research was to study the significance of creating video game rating system from Iranian parents’ point of view. To study this significance, we studied extensions of governmental mediation in video game reproduction and distribution. We also explored the extent of parental supervision on children video game behavior. Through in-depth interview from 5 parents we extracted common categories of parental mediation pattern, parents’ point of view toward video game rating system, and parents’ point of view toward game effects. Based on extracted common categories and literature in parental studies we surveyed 230 parents. One of main results of this study proves that from Iranian parents’ point of view, it is highly essential to create video game rating system. However, they were also concerned with objectivity during formation of any video game rating system. There is some incongruence between governmental mediation and parents’ expectations to be informed on how to mediate in their children’s video game behavior. Due to lack of various mediation mechanisms in Iran, limiting time spent on games is the most common pattern in parental mediation. Enthusiastic parental category in point of view toward video game rating system is also popular. Most Iranian parents have a negative view toward video game effects on their children. They also believe in the strictest way to prevent all their young children from accessing games with higher age label.

In different countries, media literacy education methods and success rates differ. For example, Canada, with its profound history in media literacy education, is the most successful country in the world, but despite widespread importance of media in Iran, media literacy education in this country is relatively new.The present study compared performance of a model country in teaching media literacy (Canada) with a country new on this way (Iran). Therefore, the performance of Canadian Media Awareness Network that provides media literacy education via “Media Smarts Website” and Iranian “Media Literacy Website”, the only Persian website providing media literacy education, were compared using “content analysis" method. The main results are as follows: majority of the contents in Iranian Website were "informative" and "alarming", but most of the contacts in Canadian Website had features of a real “educational sources. Canadian Website developed educational contents using the theories proposed by media literacy experts; While Iranian website has not used these valuable sources.

In this article, we will present some scenarios for Iran’s cyberspace issues in 1395sh (equal 20 March 2016 – 20 March 2017 in Gregorian calendar). Scanning of Iran’s environment, showed 195 variables have higher priority than average. These variables are recognized by gathering data from different methods and getting expert viewpoints in various fields, in '1395sh Iran’ Futures Studies’ project. Among them there are seven variables defined in cyberspace and some other variables set in relation with cyberspace. In this article, we constructed seven hypotheses for Iran, based on seven key variables and other related variables, then, probabilistic cross impact analysis method is used to create scenarios. To do so, we measured the occurrence probability of each hypothesis by expert opinion firstly, and we estimate the cross impact of each hypothesis on others in the condition of occurrence or failure secondly, until conditional probability matrixes are formed. To analysis of data, ‘Smic-Prob Expert’ software which is a tool in French school of strategic foresight (La Prospective) is used. 64 possible scenarios for Iran’s cyberspace along with occurrence probability of each are estimated with software. The Findings indicate that scenarios based on status quo with the most probabilities do not draw a desirable future for Iran’s cyberspace in forthcoming year.

The National Information Network (NIN) in Iran as the communication infrastructure of the national cyberspace is an ongoing project that has been a subject of media attention including some foreign media agencies in recent years. Since the media representations in this regard can be effective on public opinion orientations about the nature of the national information network, the representation of the project in some Persian and non-persian overseas media that have been selected by theoretical sampling has been studied using qualitative content analysis. Accordingly key statements arised from the selected texts have been summarized as far as possible and analyzed as the themes. Finally, six categories and eleven sub-categories were derived from the themes. Main categories include: Ambiguity in relationship between national information network and global Internet; Iran’s Authoritarian and totalitarian approach to the cyberspase by establishing the national information network; Iran’s demagogic propaganda about the national information network; Public concern over the implementation of the project; Costly process of launching the project and financial corruption of its implementers; and Iran’s inability to launch the national information network because of some social barriers and consequences.

The internet is an important tool to support the right to freedom of expression; through facilitating publication, search, and access to information, it has prepared the ground for the application of this fundamental right. Today, there is no doubt that the development of the Internet and the continued application of the new communication tool requires a developed and coherent legal system. In addition to supporting the fundamental freedoms of media, and avoiding possible abuses of this freedom, the expected legal system should be able to ensure cheap, sustainable and secure access to the media. This paper attempts to examine and study the most important issues of the legal system of news websites, including the regulations around such issues as establishment, monitoring, assessment, as well as blocking. The results of the study shows how despite the effective measure, the existing legal system for news websites is not efficient and cannot meet the current needs.

In this article, collective alienation means the reduction of density or rate of real relationship to possible relationship in social networks of family, kinship, friendship, colleague and neighborhood. The Fundamental hypothesis of this research indicates that virtual communication has a binary effect on collective alienation. This effect is reductive in the condition of long-term communication and feminine sexuality whereas it is increasing in the condition of short-term communication are masculine sexuality.
The results of the hypothesis inquiry on the social networks of a sample of 160 residents of Mashad City, aged 16 years old and over indicates that:Firstly; collective alienation in social networks of Mashad City is high on the whole.
Secondly; virtual communication accumulation is much more than that of face to face communication. Thirdly; there isn’t a relation between virtual communication accumulation and collective alienation in all networks. Finaly; in spite of the prediction, the increase of virtual communication within family and friendship networks, has been reductive to collective alienation.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between media consumption and lifestyle changes among students of Islamic Azad University, Ardabil. This research is survey method. The population of this research were all students of Islamic Azad University of Ardebil to the number 13000 of which 384 were selected by Cochran. The results showed that the Direct correlation between the use of digital media and life style. consumption, political and religious behavior There is a direct correlation and negative correlation with deviant behavior. there is no significant relationship between deviant behavior and management body. Satellite direct correlation between consumption and lifestyle and cultural consumption, material consumption, deviant behavior, political behavior and management body direct correlation between religiosity and a significant inverse correlation. The results of analysis of variance showed a significant relationship between media type and lifestyle. So that lifestyle changes in students who are more often using satellite and the students who use the Internet are less often. The result is that in a semi-interactive relationship style new media are able to enter the daily lives of your audience Because, lifestyle behaviors in daily life that every person is different from others.