گیتا علی آبادی

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the role of cultural functions of the national media on the strengthening of the family institution. The present statistical population includes the families of 2-13 regions of Tehran province, which are assumed to be unlimited. For the purpose of sampling in this research, due to the unlimited size of the statistical population, 384 people were selected as the sample size at the error level of 0.5 with Cochran's formula. In this research, a questionnaire was used in order to collect the data needed to assess and measure the investigated variables. Its validity was confirmed by experts' opinions and reliability by Cronbach's alpha. t-tests and multiple regression were used to check the assumptions. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the promotion of customs, the promotion of social values and norms, the promotion of personal and social communication, and the promotion of insights, opinions and ideologies in the society with the strengthening of the family institution.The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the promotion of customs, the promotion of social values and norms, the promotion of personal and social communication, and the promotion of insights, opinions and ideologies in the society with the strengthening of the family institution. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the promotion of customs, the promotion of social values and norms, the promotion of personal and social communication, and the promotion of insights, opinions and ideologies in the society with the strengthening of the family institution.

Publication of events containing conflict in newspaper pages causes excitement and even gives rise to feelings of sympathy or wrath in readers. Covering reports on war, earthquake, homicide and even disclosure of secret state documents not only attracts the audience but also can increase the number of fans of a newspaper or a publication. One cannot imagine an end to violence since it appears in different shapes. From past until now, the mankind has lived with violence and perhaps it is due to this continuation and sometimes change in its method that violence is paid little attention to in research studies. Surveys mainly address impacts of new media in emergence of violence and are mostly within the framework of case studies. That how violence has entered newspapers and how the print media deal with it, is not seen that much. This paper intends to review violence, the trend of its entrance into the print media, theories in this respect and transformation of violence within the past several decades.

Sociologist and researcher Williams believes that identity is created by mankind and is changed by the lapse of time to comply with the prevailing circumstances and one’s surrounding environment. Cultural, social and historical factors play an important role in formation of identity and they can build the identity of an individual or a nation by standing beside one another. Therefore, culture, language, religion, history and conditions ruling over the society can be considered factors forming the national identity (Mass Media and Identity: 2006: 147). Here the role played by language and the mechanism of its application in the media and new technologies is significant. On the one hand, the discourse of those involved and on the other hand using a common language can be effective in facilitating communication. Language is one of the factors of culture and identity of any country, and is paid attention to as cultural heritage. To prevent the influence of other languages and extinction of some of them, UNESCO has raised the issue of multilingualism and paid more attention to it in recent years. The effects of new information and communication technologies have led to a huge leap in human life in the past century. Here, the Internet has played and is playing a more important role. Getting information at any time, access to various scientific sources, libraries, cultural centers and even entertainment sources with educational application are among its characteristics. Rapid growth of and broad access to the Internet has created a transformed model of social communication and interpersonal relations. This article has tried to review the role and performance of language as a system in the media and modern technologies.