فصلنامه پژوهش های ارتباطی
پیاپی 82 (تابستان 1394)

Fictional movies are simulated versions of real life, and recognized as a popular genre. This genre of media productions affects audience's opinions, models, values, norms and roles in different areas due to the known mechanism of identification, and is considered a tool for influencing the audience and injecting value-related concepts and themes in their mind. Fictional movies are mostly popular due to their narratives; Narratives help producers avoid direct method of conveying messages to audiences and aid the media in reaching its defined objectives. Thus, the constituents and implicit and explicit concepts of narratives should be scientifically analyzed. Narative analysis as a qualitative research methodology provides the researcher with such a necessary means. This methodology helps the researcher extract hidden facts of the text and present a general interpretation. Therefore, the present article chooses and analyzes the fictional film "blind spot" due to its content and structural characteristics; in addition to introducing the structure of the film (based on Gerard Genette model), its implicit and explicit meanings (based‌ on Roland Barthes model) are also extracted.

An effective media arrangement is the IRIB's primary mission; proposing a model for developing media arrangement is a necessity in the organization, so far as to realize the mission defined for it and overcome the imperialistic possible threats. The question is: What does a model for IRIB media arrangement look like? To answer this question, the present qualitative, exploratory and deductive study was carried out using grounded theory. The data were collected through deep interviews with 15 professionals, and were coded and categorized consequently. Finally, a theory, in form of step-to-step model, was developed; these steps are as follows: preliminary step, adjusting the ending; 1. Design-related approaches; 2. Differentiating paradigm; 3. Developing design principles. 4. Defining the type of arrangement: offensive or defensive; 5. Knowing the current situation; 6. Depicting the ideal situation; 7. Determining the realm of civilization influence; 8. Developing the arrangement areas; 9. Organization; 10. Explaining objectives, mission, perspective; 11. Procuring human resources and amenities; 12. Guidelines and leadership; 13. Publishing the message; 14. Monitoring and re-designing.

This study aims to examine the concept of "digital literacy" and the role that different components of critical thinking play in its development. A thorough review of the literature provided us with these components for digital literacy: photo-visual skills, reproduction skills, branching skills, information skills, socio-emotional skills, as well as real-time thinking skills, and two aspects for critical thinking: cognitive and emotional. Furthermore, Critical thinking as an essential prerequisite for teaching digital literacy skills, and digital environments as effective contexts for nurturing critical thinking skills are discussed. Finally, a few practical solutions for simultaneous improvement of both skills is be presented.

In recent years, certain scholars have employed an inter-disciplinary approach to tie the achievements by such diverse fields as narratology, mythology and psychology, and by doing this, they have provided us with fresh fields regarding film studies. Narratives are generally indicative of our attitudes towards the world and the way we perceive it. Meanwhile, mythical narratives are of a special significance due to their capacity to offer frequent and consistent patterns about human experiences. The myth of hero is considered the most common and well-known myth around the globe, and that's why it has a deep impact on the structure of dramatic schemes. Using the pattern of the journey of hero, the present article aims to discover the structure of mythical narratives in the dramatic scheme of epic movies. It draws upon a research carried out by William Indick to analyze the movie "Braveheart" (1995) by Mel Gibson, explaining the way this pattern could be used to design the dramatic scheme of epic movies.

The present article aims to shed lights on "Water and Wastewater Department" outstanding issues, priorities and the way its managers and experts think the company's news and developments are covered on TV Channel One and Five. The research population in the content analysis consisted of all news stories broadcast on these two TV channels during summer and autumn 1393 (Iranian Calendar). The department's professionals and experts were also surveyed using clustered sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was used as the tool for collecting data, and two-dimensional descriptive table was employed for testing the hypotheses. The findings show that only 1.5 percent of the news stories covered in these two channels were allocated to water-related issues, and around half of the stories lasted no more than 30 seconds. The most frequent water-related news stories were broadcast at lower preferences. Furthermore, there was a significant difference between preferred preference, time lapse, sources and the manner of coverage in views of professionals with those of real coverage on these two channels.

The present article aims to explain resistive economy policy in the discourse of Iranian leadership. An electronic corpus containing the supreme leader' statements on the nature of resistive economy was collected and consequently studied using corpus-based discourse analysis. This study is important in that it has combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in form of corpus-based discourse analysis and made the theoretical linguistic discussions practical, bridging linguistics with political sciences. Findings indicate that the leader in explaining resistive economy policy has paid much attention to the independence of the country's economy from fossil resources, particularly oil and gas, and supported domestic production. In leader's view, stress over people's role in doing economic activities is very important, because it provides the opportunity to use all domestic talents and capacities for making money and achieving economic power and security. Public teaching on how to use fossil resources, freeing the price of energy as well as enforcing subsidy policy are among policies possibly preventing the waste of energy.

The present study aims to examine the factors affecting university student's intention behind using social media. To this end, four components of the communicative experience flow (i.e. concentration, avoiding reality, social interaction and understanding pleasure) with respect to the purpose of these network's users will be explained. The data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire, and were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Sum 259 BA students from Yazd University were chosen as the samples in 1393 (Iranian Calendar). The findings indicate that understanding pleasure and joy, avoiding reality and social interaction were among the factors affecting the intention of users for using social networks.