As the number of weblog users increase, RSS readers, which collect update information delivered as RSS feeds from such web sites, become popular to be used. Most of the commonly used RSS readers are in a tasteless style. In contrast, we aim to make a new type of RSS readers with the concepts of ‘pleasure’ and ‘comfort’ in mind. This paper describes two types of visual RSS readers with a high re...

Usenet is a decentralized discussion community predating blogs by decades. Just as there are a wide range of political blogs, many Usenet sub-communities focus on politics. However, we find these two communities are very different in terms of source content. In this work we compare linking patterns of the political Usenet with a well-known political blog and news aggregator, Memeorandum, with r...

in this paper various arch models and relevant news impact curves including a partially nonparametric (pnp) one are compared and estimated with daily iran stock return data. diagnostic tests imply the asymmetry of the volatility response to news. the egarch model, which passes all the tests and appears relatively matching with the asymmetry in the data, seems to be the most adequate characteriz...

The present research aimed at investigating the deformation of political news headlines translation between English and Persian News Agencies based on Berman`s deformative system. For this purpose, 100 news headlines in English were selected from BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, France, France 24, Financial Times, Business Times, New York Times, Politico, Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Middle East Ey...

Studying translations during the time of conflict has gained currency in the recent decade in translation studies. One of the cases in which conflict manifests itself is in the way different countries choose to name an event or a geographical location, for example. This study set out to understand how translation of rival names and labeling was carried out in Iranian state-run news agencies. To...

A High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is an online Ponzi scheme, a financial fraud that pays outrageous levels of interest using money from new investors. We call this fraud ‘postmodern’ in that sophisticated investors understand the fraud, but hope to profit by joining early. These investors support ‘aggregators’ – reputation websites that track the status of HYIPs. We examine 9 months of agg...

This research discusses the social media Twitter, which is first platform to search for latest information or news. backed up by large amount of news circulating on online portals, often sourced from Twitter. The purpose this literature review see how Twitter was chosen users as a place fulfill their needs. scope in mass communication circle using Uses & Gratifications Theory (UGT) explain ...