Recommender systems find relevant content for us online, including the personalized news we increasingly receive on Twitter and Facebook. As a consequence of personalization, we increasingly see content that agrees with our views, we cease to be exposed to views contrary to our own. Both algorithms and the users themselves filter content, and this creates more polarized points of view, so calle...

this article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in iran. as a very important part of irib news irinn has been chosen for this study. if we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. it seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...

A number of recent studies have argued that the notion of faithfulness to an original should be abandoned in models of discourse presentation, and particularly in accounts of direct speech presentation. This has coincided with a shift of attention in the study of discourse presentation from written to spoken data. This article discusses the arguments that have been made against the notion of fa...

A medium is that which remediates. It is that which appropriates the techniques, forms and social significance of other media and attempts to rival of refashion them in the name of the real. A medium in our culture can never operate in isolation, because it must enter into relationships of respect and rivalry with other media. (Bolter2 65) In relation to news and journalism, media is most commo...

websites have been considered as one of the most important means of communication among different stakeholders. regarding this fact, the news websites have been taken into account as one of the most important types of websites since they provide the users with significant information providing capabilities and they also play a major role in creating and disseminating knowledge in the society. t...

Background: This study aimed to identify the effect of momentary Attentional Blink (AB) in temporarily stressful situations reveal relationship between emotion and attention after a traumatic experience. Methods: Participants were 57 college students randomly assigned either an experimental group (n=30) that watched news videos depicting disasters or control (n=27) did not watch them. was follo...

The bad news principle states that only the expected severity of future bad news matters for the decision whether to invest today, good news should not matter at all. This paper tests this prediction using firm level expectation data.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

background: in spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. as a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in iran is critical. accordingly, in this study neighborhood environment walkability scale (news) was adapted...