Social Sciences and Communications
Jamal Mohammadi; kamal khalegh Panah; Elahe Gholami
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BeeTalk is one of the most common social networks that have attracted many users during these years. As a whole, social networks are parts of everyday life nowadays and, especially among the new generation, have caused some basic alterations in the field of identity-formation, sense-making and the form ...
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BeeTalk is one of the most common social networks that have attracted many users during these years. As a whole, social networks are parts of everyday life nowadays and, especially among the new generation, have caused some basic alterations in the field of identity-formation, sense-making and the form and content of communication. This article is a research about BeeTalk users, their virtual interactions and experiences, and the feelings, pleasures, meanings and attitudes that they obtain through participating in the virtual world. This is a qualitative research. The sample is selected by way of theoretical sampling among the students of University of Kurdistan. Direct observation and semistructured interviews are used to gathering data, which are interpreted through grounded theory. The findings show that some contexts like “searching real interests in a non-real world” and “the representation of users’ voices in virtual space” have provided the space for participating in BeeTalk, and an intervening factor called “instant availability” has intensified this participation. Users’ participation in this social network has changed their social interaction in the real world and formed some new types of communication among them such as “representation of faked identities”, “experiencing ceremonial space” and “artificial literacy”. Moreover, this participation has some consequences like “virtual addiction” and “virtual collectivism” in users’ everyday life that effects their ways of providing meaning and identity in their social lives. It can be said that the result of user’s activity in this network is to begin a kind of simulated relation that has basic differences with relations in the real world. The experience of relation in this network lacks nobility, enrichment and animation, rather it is instant, artificial and without any potential to vitalization.
Jamal Mohammadi; Abdollah Bicheranlo
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This article is to do a sociologically analysis on transformation of values, Identities and life styles at Iranian post Islamic revolution society in cinema narrations. The method of study is qualitative; first the selected movies have been analyzed by applying semiotic narration analysis based on elements ...
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This article is to do a sociologically analysis on transformation of values, Identities and life styles at Iranian post Islamic revolution society in cinema narrations. The method of study is qualitative; first the selected movies have been analyzed by applying semiotic narration analysis based on elements such as images, shots, actions, mise en secene, dialogues and scenes. Then their main social categories have been extracted and sociologically analyzed through thematic analysis strategy based on theoretical foundation of research. The population of research includes all post revolution Iranian cinema movies which 12 movies have been selected by purposive sampling method. These movies include; Narges, Fair People Wedding, Glass Agency, Under City Cover, Protest, Blue Scarf, Hemlock, Boutique, Wednesday Celebration, Trial in Street, about Eli & Separation of Nader & Simin. Findings show that selected movies narrate gaps, distinctness of social life domains, of instrumental rationality expansion & split of value systems
Jamal Mohammadi
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This research is an attempt to explain how audiences read and decode the dominant or preferred reading of television soap operas ( here, one of them named : Parvaz Dar Hobab ). The main problem of this research is that in what way TV soap operas prefer or make dominant some meanings, ideas and values ...
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This research is an attempt to explain how audiences read and decode the dominant or preferred reading of television soap operas ( here, one of them named : Parvaz Dar Hobab ). The main problem of this research is that in what way TV soap operas prefer or make dominant some meanings, ideas and values and how audiences interpret and decode these meanings and ideas and values. From this viewpoint, a soap opera is an articulation constructed of different, and sometimes contrast, elements which are unified around a nodal point. In other words, a television soap opera is an articulatory discourse which is constructed through some technical, social and ideological codes by hegemonic system. In a TV soap opera, as a discourse, some ideas and meanings are preferred over the others. The question is that how social subjects, who have an objective position in the social structure, read and decode these dominant ideas and meanings? In this research, in the first part we have used the semilogical- structuralist method to explain the preferred reading of TV soap operas, and in the second part we used focused group interview to study women readings. To mention one of the conclusions of this research, we can say that this soap opera attempts to hide that social nihilism which is the main factor of addiction. Most of the audiences have an oppositional reading of this problem.
Cultural Studies
jamal mohamadi; Shaghayegh Binandeh
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The main purpose of this research is to conduct a qualitative study, namely grounded theory, on how a specific kind of femininity is constructed through the consumption of luxury goods. To gain this purpose, the everyday consuming activities of women in leisure classes in Sanandaj would be studied. Historically, ...
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The main purpose of this research is to conduct a qualitative study, namely grounded theory, on how a specific kind of femininity is constructed through the consumption of luxury goods. To gain this purpose, the everyday consuming activities of women in leisure classes in Sanandaj would be studied. Historically, two theoretical approaches have dominated the field of luxury consumption: The classic approach of wealth - based luxury consumption and the recent approach of luxury competencies. The theoretical basis of this research is a synthesis of both approaches, with more emphasis on classic one. The sample is chosen by way of purposeful sampling whereby 21 women from Sanandaj leisure classes are interviewed in three districts: Shalman, Safari, Mobarakabad. The data were analyzed through coding processes and categorized under five categories: causal condition, contextual condition, intervening condition, strategies and consequences. The concluding core category is the representation of a kind of hegemonic femininity which, according to what data tell us, is totally the outcome of luxury consumption. The leisure classed women use two different strategies to strengthen and reproduce this femininity: the fist one serves to construct a pseudo- aristocratic femininity and the second functions to reproduce their hegemonic status in social hierarchy. The luxury consumption has also some main consequences in leisure classed women’ lives which mostly serve to strengthen aristocratic values like representing pride and prejudice, claiming to originality and family lineage.
