creating crisis and attempting to solve it is an important function of the mass media. this is carried out using a range of modern tools. media can influence socio-political and cultural events employing strategies and meta-strategies to form the public thinking in the direction they aim. the media emperors and the press trusts manage to form some kind of information monopoly through influencin...

background cholera is a bacterial infection that causes both local outbreaks and worldwide pandemics. there was a cholera epidemic in iran in summer 2005, during which 1118 individuals were infected and 11 died. the present study was conducted to determine the impact of educational activities of iranian ministry of health on the people's knowledge and attitude towards the disease. patients and ...

numerous studies have been conducted about the role of media during a crisis. accordingly diverse functions have been defined for media while in crisis. by applying a prescriptive viewpoint to derive mass media functions, most of the studies have been the based on the opinions of experts and the opinions of the victims have rarely been taken into consideration. for the first time, we have direc...

from a sociological point of view, social trust is an important element of social order. it is strengthened or undermined by certain factors including mass media. the present study, using a survey method with a sample of 400 citizens of tehran, was aimed at examining the effects of mass media on social trust. the study examined the relationship between three media (national television, satellit...

this study compared the use of interpersonal and mass media channels of communication among rural farmers in kogi state, nigeria. the specific objectives were to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers, determine the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the usage of interpersonal and media channels, ascertain farmers’ level of awareness of interpersonal and media cha...