The Role of Images in Narrating Social Problems in Iran: Reporting an Experience

This article stresses the positive role of images in effectively narrating social problems in Iran, using a methodological experiment in the field of communication. It claims that reporting research findings in the format of rigid academic reports is exclusionary of a large part of the audience and will not result in the intended social awareness. In contrast, presenting research findings in visual formats, in addition to producing the necessary data for scientific examination, will help to develop a social understanding of the investigated subjects among a larger population. The most important finding of this research is that, in social science academic institutions, it is possible to add an effective, powerful and expressive language to the existing literally and graphical ones. This is the language of images.