فصلنامه جامعه، فرهنگ، رسانه
پیاپی 29 (زمستان 1397)

Loneliness is a perceived failure and weakness in interpersonal relationships, leading to dissatisfaction with social relationships. Gender plays a decisive role in the level of loneliness and addiction to the Internet and has been used in media-related studies. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to explain the relationship between feelings of loneliness and levels of Internet addiction with emphasis on the role of gender.

This is a cross-sectional study using descriptive survey method.The statistical population of the study consisted of 16532 students of universities in central Golestan province. In order to determine the sample size, 385 people were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table. Appropriate stratified random sampling was used to select the samples.

Research findings indicate that Internet addiction is more prevalent among female students than male students, while male students are more likely to be addicted than female students. 

Also controlling for gender variables showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between loneliness and internet addiction among both male a

How to study nationalism as a discourse? What is the first step in the conceptualization of nationalism? These two questions form the central issue of this paper. In response to these questions, the leading writing attempts to emphasize the national identity as a central pillar in the discourse in understanding the discourse of nationalism. Indeed, it is an attempt by the paper to provide a conceptual, ontological, philosophical and theoretical conception of national identity - and hence the concept of fluid identity-the first step in understanding the discourse of nationalism. It seeks to show how to strike a grasp of the whole thrust of the discourse of nationalism can be viewed with a careful look, and by examining the components of this discourse - that the national identity as well as the nation are the most pivot of these components - one can understand Deeper, more precise and more plausible than nationalism. From this central focus of the paper, it focuses on the issue of identity and national identity and tries to examine the theoretical and analytical concepts by examining the approaches and theoretical tools that define national identity. Consequently, by defining the notion of identity and national identity through the use of symbolic action approaches and cultural, discourse and psychoanalytic approaches in the work of theorists such as Freud, Lacan, Zizek, Laclau and Mouffe, and analytical and problem-based reading of these views, pursue their goal.

e idea that the basis of social totality can be analyzed in the image as the seemingly trivial matter of the partial totality, this study examines the status of religion in contemporary Iran in the context of cinema. The main focus and approach in this article is on the critical views of the Frankfurt School on culture and cinema. To this end, one of the most beloved religious films of recent years has been analyzed with a view to the Frankfurt School's views on culture and the media, as well as to the critical approach of "critical discourse analysis" in language. Therefore, after an analytical overview of Adorno and Benjamin's views on the culture and cinema industry and considering that in the Critical Discourse of Critical Discourse Analysis, discourse analysis alone is not capable of analyzing wider social practice and requires social theory, Video analysis is used. Describing, interpreting, and explaining the text of the Sabr-Mehr film, the three levels of textual and discursive practice and social practice have been used by Falklaf. One of the major results of the research is the dominance of commodity logic in religious films in particular, and the perception of religion in general, in the cultural industries

The television as an instrument of representation plays an important role in promoting and reproducing of the doctrines prevailing discourse. The TV Images are not attractive and entertaining objects or transporter of information and awareness, but also have cultural significations and values. The present study by studying the television series of Paytakht 5 is following the deconstruction of represented behavioral patterns and values. In general, this study seeks to show how cultural values and behavioral patterns have been represented in this television series and how was their representation mechanism. This research uses a qualitative approach and semiotic method to decode the cultural themes and significations. The findings show that this TV series has constructed cultural values and significations in the form of patriarchal capitalism ideology to mediate a set of symbols, actions, situations, dialogues, and behavioral patterns. This ideology, by representing multiple social brigades and constructing some duality such as woman/man, worker/employer, labor/employer, legislation/unlegislation, tact/incompetence, tamed women/rebellious tried to represent itself as innocent being and makes its relations natural.

In a world where the media have surrounded us, celebrities play an important role in teenagers’s and youths’ life that is mostly unfavorable and annoying. Celebrities are created in societies where identity has become a wandering concept for adolescents and young people, and has led to the selection of celebrities as a symbol and role model. The aim of this research is to examine the status of celebrities as a product of the media and the role model of youth and adolescents. The method of this paper is descriptive, which is obtained using library method and content analysis. Finally, the researchers concluded that today the media needs to introduce real role models that will have permanent effects for the upbringing of new generation. In order t

This research aims to recognize how the 12th presidential election of Iran was reflected in two newspapers of Keyhan and Shargh. The research focuses on the last two weeks of Iran 12th presidential election campaign from 5th to 19th May 2017. The research units are reviewed based on the Agenda-Setting Theory and through applying the analysis methodology. Rohani and Raeisi were the two main rivals in the election campaign. Shargh and Keyhan newspapers supported Rohani and Raeisi respectively The targeted sampling was applied on successive days and resulted in 614 election articles. The research findings show that the major approach of both newspapers are publishing the “news”; then the articles have been provided in the format of “report” by Keyhan Newspaper and “note” by Shargh Newspaper; therefore, it can be said that Shargh is closer to deep analysis nature of the newspaper articles in comparison with Keyhan. Both newspapers have directly supported their nominees. Shargh and Keyhan newspapers have respectively made their most criticisms of

Narrative health communication is a form of persuasive communication in which a health message is presented in the form of a real or unrealistic story. This form of presentation is in contrast to the mere statistics provided to promote health-based behaviors. In recent years, many meta-analyzes have been conducted on the impact of narrative health communication; however, a more thorough understanding of the mechanism by which health narratives are influenced requires further research. To this end, this special section examines the ten main research articles, integrates knowledge and research direction into the field of narrative health communication. The studies presented here address experiences that mediate the effects of narratives on health outcomes. These studies also examine the role of moderating factors such as cultural background, shape, content, and context-based features. All of the studies presented here have important implications for "validity and impact processing" theory and are effective tools for designing effective health communication messages.