research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

The fundamental premise of tagging systems is that regular users can successfully organize large collections for browsing and other tasks through the use of uncontrolled vocabularies. Until now, that premise has remained relatively unexamined. In this work, using library data as a guide, we look at whether tags do a good job of organizing large sets of objects. We find that tags are predominant...

This paper examines the uses of hypermedia technologies by popular science magazines, in the light of the potential implied by these technologies. In a series of two studies, we investigated the argumentation and readability of texts and hypertexts from six popular science magazines and we conducted an experimental study with one of the texts from the corpus. Results show that science magazines...