فصلنامه مطالعات فرهنگ - ارتباطات
پیاپی 14 (تابستان 1390)

Mass media in modern world have become one of the crucial elements which have affect not only economic and political aspects of life but cultural and social aspect of our life has been affected by them. National television in Iran has claimed to have an educational role as well as, Culture-Building for the society. This paper explains how media can build and change different aspects of culture then we try to study how we can show the representation of family in the television contexts concerning with the importance of family. Therefore at first the culture meaning is divided to three main categories such as: Fundamental beliefs, values, norms and behaviors; Then the function of media in each expressed categories have been studied concerning with The 20-Year Perspective Document. Finally, the results have indicated that for building and changing the culture specially at the level of the family, firstly some changes in Fundamental believes should be made then the values, norms and behaviors should be considered. Indeed planning fundamental believes should be at the base of this kind of pyramid.

In every society people expect cultural authorities to decrease the lack of information in cultural activities by collecting data. The lack of information causes many problems for cultural policymakers thus they have faced serious barriers to lay the foundation of cultural policy. So there should be a valid and comprehensive method to provide an objective aspect of the cultural status. Family magazines are considered a part of cultural Goods in Iran, so they play an important role in our culture. This paper examines the content of these family magazines, particularly the messages and cultural contents of them which have been published in a period of a month. The main goal for this article is:- We try to study the cultural issues which are considered in the magazines as well as photos and Ads of all publications then analyze their content (by using the content analysis method). 1) More than three-quarters of the headlines on the cover of these magazines are inconsistent with the news.2) The contents which consider the relationship between parents and children as well as the relationship of children in these magazines are very little thus it is recommended to pay more attention to these issues.

This study examines the effect of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) on politics and political development; this kind of study is not so common in our country. Indeed even in developed countries this kind of study has been used in very limited areas such as electronic voting and automated election as well as increasing public access to political information etc and a deep search in the Net can be a witness to the claim.This article may be considered as a first step for theoretical design of this subject although it tries to study the mutual effect of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) on state as the most important political area as well as study the Political Development. Therefore the study of the possible relationship between the mentioned categories is the main issues of this paper. The Author has emphasized the importance of this subject then it has been explain that the most important finding of this study is the relationship between these three concepts. It has been shown that how the development of ICT can assist in the basic functions of state as well as it can facilitate the process of political development. Eventually it can guarantee continuous and stable development of itself.

This study evaluates the concepts of hierarchal Markedness and Signification of Iranian classical music. the method has been used in this paper is qualitative method. The results has shown that the Markedness in Iranian classical music occurs in two ways: 1. The relations between the Gushehs of Dastgah 2. The relations between musical Notes Although signification will occur in macro range of culture, in the term of understanding meaning it has dynamic and multiple shape in the Dastgah framework of music. But Tazieh, a kind of Iranian traditional musical Ritual, has shown another context of Iranian music in which signification is more prominent.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between religiosity and the quality of life among youth in Shiraz. To do so, at first the related literature in Iranian and international publications has been reviewed, and then a theoretical framework based on ecological theory has been proposed as well as five hypotheses have been established. For testing hypothesis, the survey method has been used, in this case, 550 youth between 15 to 29 ages has been chosen as population by systematic random sampling. Findings show that variables at micro level (age, lower class & upper class) and at macro level (religious rituals, religious consumptions and religious beliefs) as a whole could explain 25 percent of variation of QOL of youth. The research shows that the improvement of the religious beliefs has an effect positively on mental and social heath as well as quality of life

Today communication technologies have affected our life, therefore in this modern world people can’t live without these technologies. However the development in communication technologies has some positive advantages, these effects have also some negative advantages too. Thus communication theorists have divided the effects of communication technologies in two categories:First, some theorists have believed that communication technologies have just positive effectsSecond, the other scientists in communication science have focused on just negative effects of communication technologies.This study examines both negative and positive effects of these kinds of technologies although the political and economic effects of communication technologies on globalization have been studied.