Violence Regulation Analysis of Television Programs

Television Programs and Development of Moral Values

In this study, the relationship between the viewing of television programs (programs toward God, the lessons of the Quran, the Fath) in the fields of Tehran citizens to moral values (Faith, virtue, purification and self-purification, prayer, reading culture, integrity, justice-oriented, good relations with others) have been investigated. The statistical population of this research over 15 years...

audience and television programs: women readings of television commercials

portraying women in the media is one of the main social and cultural issues especially on television. television commercials as a genre have ideas about goods and services, but it constructs a secondary discourse about society, culture and gender roles along the way. the main goal of this paper is to examine women’s readings of gender roles representation in iranian television commercials from ...

Does television violence cause aggression?

Content Analysis of Food Advertising in Iranian Children's Television Programs

BACKGROUND Advertisements can influence children's health related behaviors. Television advertisements are the main avenues directing commercials at children in Iran. This study aimed to explore the content of food advertisement during children's television programs in 2007-8 and to compare it with those reported in 2000. METHODS All advertisements broadcasted before, during, and after childr...

Regulation of television advertising

Regulation of television advertising typically covers both the time devoted to commercials and restrictions on the commodities or services that can be publicized to various audiences (stricter laws often apply to children’s programming). Time restrictions (advertising caps) may improve welfare when advertising is overprovided in the market system. Even then, such caps may reduce the diversity o...