مجله مطالعات میان رشته ای ارتباطات و رسانه
سال پنجم شماره 3 (پیاپی 17، پاییز 1401)

The present study intends to make a comparative study between a literary work and a cinematic production concerning the function of cinematic translation as an intertextual practice. Accordingly, three intertextual relations have been introduced including “repetition”, “creation” and “omission” .After introducing each of these relations, different kinds of repetition and creation in cinematic translation have been discussed in detail along with examples mainly from two adaptations of the movies “The cow” and “The pear tree”. In this article and in the process of introducing intertextual relations, the authors have attempted to take into consideration the ways on the basis of which a cinematic meta-text is culturally marked. The classification of intertextual relations in adaptation has been carried out based on Fairclough’s approach towards the text (1995). Fairclough defines text as “partly repetition” and “partly creation”. On the other hand, while introducing Jakobson’s categories of translation, the study introduces cinematic adaptation as a type of inter-semiotic translation.

Along with globalization and the change in the lifestyle of the Iranians, like forgetting the traditional games and replacing them with modern games, today, the most important entertainment for children and teens are computer games. These games bring up opportunities, as well as threats which are a function of family functioning, sociability, and rational management of how to deal with the issue. Based on that, this study aims to evaluate the effect of computer games on children’s behavior (meta-analysis of the studies from 2000 to 2010). The statistical population includes 57 studies selected from 24 research documents. The results show that computer games possess two dimensions of “opportunities” including reducing aggression (0.373), improving social skills (0.122), improving children's executive functions (0.246), learning scientific concepts (0.207), improving memory function (0.311), creativity and entrepreneurship (0.336), developing the media awareness and literacy levels (0.392), problem-solving ability (0.377), and “behavioral threats” including promotion of social violence (0.401), academic failure (0.485), social delinquency (0.385), weakness of social relations ( 0.348), family’s emotional crisis (0.437), indiscipline (0.357), social isolation (0.399), increased stress (0.302), computer addiction (0.216), identity crisis (0.152) and behavioral conflict with parents (0.189).

Some specific narrations of life, known as the narrations of redemption, are positively correlated with psychological well-being. The present study aims to compare the effect of watching special films (with and without interpretation), based on McAdams’ theory and Savikas’ Life Design counseling, in creating and promoting the self-redemption experience and thus promoting the adults’ well-being. The narrative of redemption is a specific form or strategy of narrative in which an obviously bad event, an emotional state, or a negative situation turns into a good ending or a positive emotional outcome. This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test in which 24 adults in the age range of 24 to 65 years with bachelor's degree and higher were selected by available sampling method through the online announcement and randomly assigned to four control and experimental groups; that is watching movies without interpretation, watching movies with interpretation, and making life counseling. The Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The results showed that although the effect of watching movies (with and without interpretation) and life-making counseling on the discovery and promotion of self-rescue experience and function is not quantitatively significant (p >0.05), these interventions have caused qualitative changes among the individuals. This issue is very important considering the significance of self-redemption in promoting the psychological well-being of individuals.

Today, the media -especially television- play a central and essential role in promoting lifestyle among their audience. By showing the elements of the lifestyle, the media guide people towards what they aim to. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) TV is no exception and tries to make its audience familiar with these indicators by displaying the elements and indicators of the Islamic-Iranian lifestyle. This research, carried out through targeted qualitative content analysis (QCA), intends to answer these questions: how has been the representation of the Islamic-Iranian lifestyle of the family in the IRIB TV? and based on what indicators? Also, what is the sociological analysis of this approach despite some social realities? For this purpose, an attempt has been made to answer the question of this research by analyzing the family-oriented television programs “We Return to Home!” (Be Khaneh Barmigardim!), “The Image of the Family” (Tassvir-e Zendegi) and One Thousand Ways Not Gone (Hezaar Raah-e Narafteh). The most important results are that: the social index with 4 types of main categories and 27 types of sub-categories is the most dealt with indicator, the religious index with 4 types of categories and 20 types of sub-categories is the second, and the cultural index with 4 types of main categories and 11 sub-categories is the third most dealt with indicator, in the family programs of the IRIB TV. Also, in the program One Thousand Ways Not Gone (Hezaar Raah-e Narafteh), paying attention to the category of family relations possesses the highest importance with the social index including 9 subcategories. In the program “We Return to Home!” (Be Khaneh Barmigardim!), paying attention to the category of moral characteristics of the society possesses the religious index including 5 subcategories and in the program “The Image of the Family” (Tassvir-e Zendegi), the social indicator of family communication is with 6 sub-categories which is dealt with in the form of talking with the experts and guests and other formats such as songs and hymns, playbacks, etc.

Although with the increasing use of social media, the impact of user-generated content on customer decision-making has increased, no comprehensive research has been done to evaluate the quality of user-generated content on social media so far. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a framework for evaluating the quality of user-generated content on social media. In the first stage of the research, the dimensions and indicators of the quality of user-generated content have been identified and extracted using the meta-synthesis method. The statistical population includes a collection of articles in the related fields collected by a library survey through the Internet. In the second stage, Shannon’s entropy-based approach has been used to prioritize the dimensions and indices extracted, based on the frequency of the obtained codes. According to the results from meta-synthesis, six main categories, 13 dimensions and 207 indicators have been presented as the final framework, which include the following: “content” (including textual and audio-visual dimensions), “validity” (including user credentials and information source credentials), “presentation” (including structure and form dimensions), “integrity” (including accuracy and security dimensions), “background” (including time and demographic dimensions) and “performance” (including usefulness, cognitive and socio-emotional dimensions). This study tries to inform managers and those active in the field of e-commerce, of how to create effective content so that it can benefit them from the new technology of social commerce.

By expansion of cyberspace and entering the flow of fame into the social discourse, the trend of cultural change has faced the challenge of interference of celebrities; in fact, the penetration of cyberspace among the youth and the increase in the consumption of cultural and media content by them, along with the popularity of reference groups in this space, have affected the direction and nature of the cultural change at different levels; an issue that has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of culture and media. The challenges cultural changes face are the subject of the present study. Accordingly, this study seeks to examine the challenges of cultural change through reputation in cyberspace. The research method is Husserl’s descriptive phenomenology and is based on Colaizzi's method. The participants in the study were celebrities active in various fields of art, sports, and cyberspace activists. From among them, semi-structured and in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 individuals as research samples using standard-dependent purposive sampling. Validation was confirmed by two coders, and external auditors and return to the interviewees. The results showed that the challenges of cultural change through fame in cyberspace can be classified into the capital of fame, celebritization of the society, separation of reality from representation, mediatization of culture, and new individuality. These dimensions include components such as the desire to display the ideal self, the democratization of emotions, the "patronage" policy, the tendency to consume the yellow data, cyber cultural literacy, and the acquisition of economic status through reputation.