eGovernment rankings are increasingly important as they guide countries’ focus of their efforts. Hence indexes must not just measure features of web sites but also accurately indicate underlying government processes. eGovernment rankings are in a process of maturation in that direction, moving from purely measuring web sites to assessing use and government qualities. One such measurement is the...

The potential harmful effects of media violence have been studied systematically and extensively. However, very little attention has been devoted to the intrigue and struggles between people depicted in the mass media. A longitudinal randomized experimental group-control group, pretest-posttest design study was conducted to examine the potential effects of this type of TV series on young adults...

The early semiology of cinema considered that and television obeyed the same codes. Today, TV series lovers refuse such a similarity, filmmakers, in turn, have great distrust series, as evidenced by Film Selector Cannes Festival who, 2018, said: “Series are industrial, films poetry”.The present article aims to examine what remains answering following questions: What is watch on television? On D...

In this paper, we present our approach used in the TRECVID 2015 Video Hyperlinking Task [13]. Our approach combines text-based similarity calculated on subtitles, visual similarity between keyframes calculated using Feature Signatures, and preference whether the query and retrieved answer come from the same TV series. All experiments were tuned and tested on about 2500 hours of BBC TV programme...

one of the most popular genres of tv series in iran is the historical genre. especially, popular is the contemporary era depicted in the tv series in which their stories illustrate the ending of qajar dynasty and the beginning of pahlavi dynasty. audiences’ acclamation in watching tv series such as, hezar dastan, kife englisi (english bag), shabe dahom, (the tenth night) and madar-e sefr daraje...