The religious education of Iranian teenagers as the fourth generation of the Islamic Revolution is so vital that the Supreme Leader dedicated significant parts of the strategic statement on "The Second Phase of Islamic Revolution" to this section of the society as those who build the future. Considering the undeniable role of the media in forming beliefs and values of the audience in the commun...

Social media has become influential and affects large public perception. Anyone can post and share messages on social networking sites. However, not all posts are trustworthy. Many online messages contain misleading or false information. There has been an extensive research to assess the credibility of social media data. Previous studies evaluate all online messages, which may be inappropriate ...

In our day, social networks are also called as the new generation media, which give the daily increasing users the change to gather at these environments and thus interactive environments get created with the messages noteworthy enough to share. Thereby, the cooperation of big masses and joint production are rendered possible and new tendencies are provided a change. Thanks to these environment...

Introduction As the use of online and social media increases globally, the need for sentiment analysis tools in multiple languages is critical in order to understand and analyze the vast amount of data that may contain users’ feelings, perceptions, and beliefs. Users from different countries convey their messages in various languages, which may convey different sentiments and cultural connotati...

Twitter has been proposed by several studies as a means to track public health trends such as influenza and Ebola outbreaks by analyzing user messages in order to measure different population features and interests. In this work we analyze the number and features of mentions on Twitter of drug brand names in order to explore the potential usefulness of the automated detection of drug side effec...

Early detection of disease outbreaks is crucial for public health officials to react and report in time. Currently, novel approaches and sources of information are investigated to address this challenge. For example, data sources such as blogs or Twitter messages become increasingly important for epidemiologic surveillance. In traditional surveillance, statistical methods are used to interpret ...

140 characters seems like too small a space for any meaningful information to be exchanged, but Twitter users have found creative ways to get the most out of each Tweet by using different communication tools. This paper looks into how 73 nonprofit organizations use Twitter to engage stakeholders not only through their tweets, but also through other various communication methods. Specifically, i...

Radio is an ideal media for marketing fast moving consumer goods because it can reach wide targeted listener demographics in urban habitat. A large number of people listen to radio while commuting in urban areas and respond to the broadcast of various commercial messages. This study aims at analyzing the impact of radio advertisements on urban commuters towards buying behavior in retail stores ...