مجله جهانی رسانه - نسخه فارسی
پیاپی 5 (بهار و تابستان 1387)

This paper attempts to examine the impact of Western Popular Culture on Iranian Music. With its millions of supporters, Iranian Popular Music tries not only to be a local but a universal music as well How much success this music will achieve on its time would affect the whole Iranian art in the future. The paper follows a semiological analysis of couple of Iranian pop music singers to discover how this Iranian genre of pop music can reach the standards a more global pop music. We will provide a thorough analysis of signs and symbols imbedded into pop music in Iran to see how it is possible to provided a rather comprehensive understanding of the direction of Iranian pop music. The paper also explores the possibility of using music as a tools to improve intercultural communication locally, as well as globally.

This paper attempts to provide an analysis on the question of how Literacy practices are used in the site of MySpace to provide Profiles. MySpace is a site where millions of members create personal Profiles and take part in a variety of social activities. For the teenagers who actively use MySpace, it is one of their primary means of communicating with each other and is an environment in which they can Participate in many facets of American Culture, especially in entertainment sectors such as music, television, and movies (Boyd 2006a). Many put significant time and effort into creating and maintaining their MySpace Profiles. In what ways can the production of a MySpace Profile represent a locus of New digital literacies? The answer depends on what is meant by “Literacy.” Here, I first analyze the creation of a MySpace Profile with respect to a framework of Literacy that integrates prior social and technical perspectives, focusing on the use of code. Then, I argue that while MySpace is not an ideal environment for learning some of the languages of web production, the expressive Power found in the creation of a MySpace Profile concerns a technically simple but socially complex practice: the copying and pasting of code as a way to appropriate and reuse other People’s Media products. Finally, I contend that this practice calls into question the dichotomies used when describing the processes of “consumption” and “production” and the activities of “reading” and “writing”. By integrating recent work in Media and cultural studies with research on Literacy, concepts such as “Participation” and “remix” provide a useful way of describing this New Literacy practice.

The author of this paper tries to introduce the concept of RAS as a unit of communication. RAS is the smallest constructing unit of a message and it produces the meaning of a message in the receiver. Since RAS is neither objectively nor directly observable, the sciences of physics and biology are utilized in the study of this concept. Though communication science, physics, and biology seem, on the surface, three distinct categories, there are certain similarities as well as commonalities in the basics of these branches. These commonalities have contributed to the identification and conceptualization of RAS as the unit of communication. The author is of the opinion that hard sciences provide a proper route to understand the concept of RAS, and has found certain features and characteristics which provide a proper ground for the analysis of the communication unit. Some of these features are equilibrium in communication systems (on the basis of two factors: ‘need’ and ‘density’), similar linear relationship with the environment, active and passive transference, distinct responsibility in communication units, concordance with the law of light refraction, superimposition with a different RAS field, information reflection phenomenon, simulation and multiplication, mutation, relationship with a former RAS as the origin of a new formation, dialectic of order and disorder, the formation of a RAS chain or network, the internal forces which are important in the effectiveness of a message on the audience, effectivity and susceptibility cycle, effectivity index, the mutability of energy from one form to another, RAS wavy movements, and refraction states.

The objective of this paper is to probe the effect of the internet on some aspects of social identity (such as religious, ethnical, familial and individual) in the city of Sanandaj, using survey research method. The research was conducted amongst two groups of girls: those who were using the internet and those who do not. The analysis of data revealed statistically significant differences between the two groups. The religious, ethnical, familial and personal identities in the former group are weaker than the latter group. This could be an indication of decreasing effect of traditional canals in the identity-building process of girls on one hand, and that an sign of qualitative change in identity-forming components in modern age on the other that are not under the control of traditional and non-official (family, ethnicity and religious) resources as well as that of official structures (institutions in charge of social control and cultural planning). The paper concludes that despite attempts done by traditional, official and non-official institutions in directing social and individual identities, yet the use of the internet has significantly affected the social identity of the respondents.

The aim of this study is to examine how the modernization process, especially through introduction of ICTs into the Dehdar's clan, affected Dehdar clan in the Province of Fars. Also, it will examine the question to what the new ICTs affected the clan’s life style, with a special focus on the lifestyle of Dehdar's clan. The paper will also indicate how these changes led to the changes in their lifestyle from traditional lifestyle to modern one. The process of changes are more triggered by diffusion of modern technology since implementation of land reform in Iran in 1962. The target sample population for this study included 404 individuals that involved both native and migrated individuals to the city of Shiraz who continue to live in this city. The result of this study indicated that ICTs such as mobile, satellite TV and internet affected the clan member’s lifestyles and contributed to the transformation of traditional lifestyle to modern lifestyle The aim of this study is to examine how the modernization process, especially through introduction of ICTs into the Dehdar's clan, affected Dehdar clan in the Province of Fars. Also, it will examine the question to what the new ICTs affected the clan’s life style, with a special focus on the lifestyle of Dehdar's clan. The paper will also indicate how these changes led to the changes in their lifestyle from traditional lifestyle to modern one. The process of changes are more triggered by diffusion of modern technology since implementation of land reform in Iran in 1962. The target sample population for this study included 404 individuals that involved both native and migrated individuals to the city of Shiraz who continue to live in this city. The result of this study indicated that ICTs such as mobile, satellite TV and internet affected the clan member’s lifestyles and contributed to the transformation of traditional lifestyle to modern lifestyle.

This paper will introduce an argument on e-city and proposes the necessity of electronic banks as the most important organizations to solve problems that are geared to the development of e-cities. We will also try to identify the role and place of e-banking in e-city, essential infrastructure for banking settlement in e-city, e-banking applications in e-city, implementation of e-baking's challenges in e-city, ways of persuading citizens to use e-banking services and finally presenting guidelines for e-banking settlement in e-city. It should be further noted that day-to-day growth and deployment of information and communication technology has made a revolution in various dimensions of human life including organizational revenues and has made changes in banking systems. This type of technology has changed the way people, organizations and governments operate and how their visions and has lead to creation of new industries and occupations and the way they use innovations to perform their duties. The emergence of phenomena such as e-learning, e-commerce, e-business are the most prominent results of penetration and deployment of information technology in various dimensions of modern life and has lead to the emergence of e-city, in which we could perform various activities and city services all in electronic format.

This paper will first offer a comparative approach to patterns of delinquency in virtual and real world but will focus on delinquent behavior in virtual world. The paper introduces a typology of delinquent behaviors that are performed through internet but will focus on four of them. The paper then tries to provide answers to questions such as : why is internet becoming means for performing delinquency? Should access to internet be supervised or limited? I will then provide an overview of speculations on whether state supervision should performed on access to internet. In the end, I will propose solutions that can be used to diminish internet-based delinquent behaviors.

This paper will answer the question: is it possible to extract elements of a theory on managing time and planning from the book: “Eat the Frog”. From this point of view, this paper attempts to evaluate and analyze the theoretical approach of the author of the book. In order to determine the theoretical patterns used in the book I will use the innovation theory of Rogers. In order to answer the above question I will first introduce Rogers’s definition of theory and what I mean by content analysis and then I will analyze the elements used in the book to specify the theory of managing time and planning. In the end, I will show that the answer to the question has been positive.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the research trends of the specialized Journals on Tourism using a content analysis of the sample of these journals. Furthermore, the paper will introduce eight trends of these journals, which is considered the contribution of this argument. It should be noted that the development of Tourism industry has attracted the government officials’ attentions in Iran and elsewhere. These developments have caused the academic atmospheres to treat tourism as a discipline and support the scientific research in this field. Along with the disciplinary developments of the field, a special attention also has been placed on the development of specialized journals. In this respect, numerous researches have been made to analyze, assess and evaluate scientific journals in recent decades. Since tourism is also a matter of concern in contemporary Iranian scholarly atmosphere, the paper has taken the cause to develop it into a full capacity academic activity. In order to do that, I have considered the analysis of the research trends of tourism’s journals to be one of the first but formost steps.