Background and purpose: Media literacy is defined as the ability to access, analyze, and evaluate the messages transferred by the media, which has the various dimensions, including the creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the media literacy in students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. Material and Method: In this...

The digitalization of media content and the development of new communication and distribution channels change the media sector and the business environment worldwide. Over the last ten years, technical advances have enabled the consumers to digitize, store, share and modify the content quickly and cheaply on a mass scale. Presently there are lots of file sharing tools and peer-to-peer networks ...

The semantically complicated Arabic natural vocabulary, and the shortage of available techniques skills to capture emotions from text hinder sentiment analysis (ASA). Evaluating idioms that do not follow a conventional linguistic framework, such as contemporary standard (MSA), complicates an incredibly difficult procedure. Here, we define novel lexical approach for studying language tweets (TTs...

Abstract With the advent of new media era, we face problem information overload every day, based on which this paper proposes a scenario-conscious clustering algorithm for recommending content. The improved K-means is used to cluster content, an initial center randomly selected, and remaining centers are obtained by executing reduce number iterations avoid neighboring situations. then compared ...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

exposes. The news, as Hamilton (2004) remarks, is an “information good,” a thing to be sold to advertisers and audiences. Although major corporate scandals get news coverage when they break, news organizations do not invest heavily in investigating private-sector actions (→ Investigative Reporting). News organizations and journalists do not so much promote corporate power as they ignore it, all...