Ehsan Shahghasemi

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - The Perception of Usefulness: Iranian Customers’ Evaluation of Customer Reviews

Over the last decade, the retail industry has had a phenomenal growth. All figures show their success and efficiency and many studies have shown the role of customer reviews in encouraging ambivalent purchasers to buy items online. There have been numerous studies on why people read and trust these comments and taking for granted the important role of customer reviews in determining buying deci...

[ 2 ] - تعاملی‌بودن در بازی رایانه‌ای «فراخوانی به خدمت»

نظریه‌پردازان ارتباطات مدت‌هاست از یکسویه بودن رسانه‌های جمعی انتقاد کرده و مخاطبان را تا‌ اندازه زیادی منفعل دانسته‌اند. آنان راه‌حل خروج از این انفعال را دوسویه کردن ارتباط رسانه و مخاطب و به عبارت دیگر افزایش تعاملی‌بودن رسانه‌ها دانسته‌اند. اگرچه تلفن نخستین وسیله ارتباطی کاملاً تعاملی بود، اما تا پیدایش رسانه‌های نوین ارتباطی و اطلاعاتی که میزان تعاملی‌بودن در آنها زیاد است، باید انتظار می‌...

[ 3 ] - Factors Influencing Social Media Usage in the US

Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

[ 4 ] - Iranian Celebrities on the Internet

Celebrities have gained considerable influence in the last one hundred years or so, but the advent of so-called Web 2.0 technologies has given celebrity culture a new momentum. We are living in a world in which celebrities are striving to curve their place in every niche and hence we have to become more media literate in order to avoid being exploited by celebrity media and culture. We have to ...

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