Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan

University of Tehran (UT) · Communication

This study explores the use of Facebook in Mauritius under the lens of the famous Uses and Gratifications theory. The objectives of the study are: to identify the strongest motivators of Facebook use in Mauritius and to evaluate Facebook intensity based on socio-demographic background of respondents. The study presents 8 motives to create a model t...

The complexity and interconnected patterns of change in the 21st century have resulted in significant transformation in Iran. During the last two decades, much academic effort from a variety of disciplines went into trying to understand, examine and predict these transformations. However, there are no in-depth studies on these profound social and c...

The results of the study show that, with 5569 joint publications and as part of the 10,239 authors from both countries, Iranian students in Malaysia have contributed to 10.13% of Iran’s international joint publications between 2012 and 2017. Additionally, Iranian students in Malaysia have contributed to 9.8% of all Malaysian international joint pub...

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of t...

Background and Object: Strengthening healthy lifestyle adherence through self-care approach requires to consider information seeking behavior of audience. However, the popularity, facilities, and easy access to online resources have led to the dissemination and sharing inaccurate information, which is caused to more challenges in evaluating the acc...

This study aims to analyze how celebrities are "represented" on the 20:30 news section, channel 2 of IRIB. IRIB is the main national state-controlled media corporation for promoting and consolidating the official discourse. Since the celebrities' activities such as political comments, charity, and lifestyle in many cases might contradict the offici...

The purpose of this study is to study the impact of "intimacy", "belonging" and "forgiveness" on "marital satisfaction". Based on the two theories of "Hierarchy of Needs" and "Dynamic Goal of Marital Satisfaction", this study seeks to answer two questions: Is there a significant relationship between marital satisfaction and demographic variables? A...

The present study aimed to perform a critical analysis of celebrity-centeredness and yellow dialogues in the most watched program of IRIB in 1399 – “Dorehami”. “Celebrity-centeredness” refers to the conditions in which celebrities become the main subject matter and rumors about their community and their private lives receives exceeding attention. T...

This study focuses on examining the mediating effect of intimacy, belonging, self-esteem on the relationships between anxious, avoidant attachment and forgiveness among Iranian married women. Data were collected from 435 women and the Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) method was applied to analyse the data. The results revealed that the impacts of an...

هدف این پژوهش، مطالعه پویش اعتراضی «صدای آبان 98» در بستر شبکه اجتماعی اینستاگرام بوده است. سوال اصلی پژوهش، ارزیابی ماهیت این پویش، شناسایی اهداف آن و اینکه از چه تکنیک‌ها و مکانیسم‌های تبلیغاتی و ارتباطی برای دستیابی به اهداف خود استفاده کرده است؟ بیانیه اصلی این پویش با روش تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف، ارزیابی شده و نتایج آن در مدل تحلیل پویش جا...

Studying the history of Islamic societies encountering “the misfortunes of Islam” within recent decades indicates a sort of “historical transition” from “hard” power to a kind of soft, scientific solution finding based on “knowledge and education” which is remarked as “Islamizing knowledge”. Regarding the significance of this “historical transition...

The purpose of this study is to analyse stories of “Sadaf Beauty” webpage, as one of the leading Instagram Pages in the area of “beauty” according to Forbes Magazine, 2019. This research was carried out based on three research questions: 1-How Sadaf's lifestyle is displayed, 2- How she communicate with her audiences, and 3-How she advertises cosmet...

سیاستگذاری رسانه ای مجموعه ای از هنجارها و اقداماتی است که از سوی دولتها و به عنوان راهنمای عمل نظامهای رسانه ای شکل میگیرد. این سیاستها که به عنوان مکانیزمی برای رصد و کنترل فعالیتهای رسانه ای تدوین میشوند، علی-رغم تفاوتهایی که با یکدیگر دارند، غالباً از سیاستهای رسانه ای غرب تأثیر پذیرفته اند. هند به عنوان کشوری کهن در آسیا، تجارب منحصربه فردی در...

هدف این مقاله مطالعه سیر تحولات مفهومی در حوزه «شبکه‌های اجتماعی» در دو دهه اخیر با هدف ترسیم یک نمای کلی از وضعیت «شبکه‌های اجتماعی» در جهان است تا بتوان از نتایج آن برای توسعه و تحقیق در این زمینه در داخل کشور بهره برد. روش تحقیق مورد استفاده فرا تحلیل از نوع «علم‌سنجی» می‌باشد. جامعه آماری، کلیه اسناد علمی نمایه‌سازی شده در پایگاه استنادی «وب. آ...

The aim of this article is to study the process of conceptual evolutions within the realm of “social media” during two recent decades with the purpose of depicting a general overview of the world “social media” status, thus one can use its results to develop and do research in this field in the country. The research method is scientometric meta-ana...

Current development in the usage of media and the Internet proved that community members are increasingly exposed to various gadgets and media applications, which undoubtedly can have positive and negative impacts on their lives. Yet, despite interest in and the emergence of examples of inspirational community engagement and the increasing usage of...

هدف از این مقاله، مطالعه و تحلیل مسیر روند رشد تولیدات علمی در زمینه "سواد رسانه ای" در پایگاه استنادی "وب.آو.ساینس" است. روش این تحقیق، فراتحلیل از نوع "علم سنجی" است. جامعه آماری تحقیق، کلیه اسناد علمی تولید شده در پایگاه استنادی "وب.آو.ساینس"در بازه زمانی 1970 تا 2019 بوده است. نمونه تحقیق، در مرحله اول، 1671 سند علمی است که با موضوع "سواد رسانه...

After publishing our recent paper "A Crisis in “Open Access”: Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access? ", I received call from Pola Lem, a reporter from Science Policy Magazine Research Europe (Research Professional) , to give comments on "WHO joining Plan S". Here is the story of WHO & Plan S and my comments too.

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of...

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of...

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of t...

حکمرانی سایبری به عنوان مقوله ای نسبتاً جدید کمتر از یک دهه است که وارد ادبیات سیاسی و روابط بین الملل کشورها شده است. ظهور فناوریهای مربوط به فضای سایبری باعث ایجاد تحول در مفهوم «قدرت» و تغییر در موازنه «منابع» آن شده و به این ترتیب با ظهور بازیگران جدید عرصه در قدرت و حاکمیت، نوع حکمرانی کشورها نیز دچار دگرگونی فراوان شده است. این مقاله به مطال...

This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire on Malaysian students' knowledge and belief toward breast cancer and breast cancer screening. A cross sectional study was conducted among 792 female undergraduate students in selected public universities in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Convergent and discriminant validity tests were used for asses...

هدف اصلي اين پژوهش مطالعه و شناسايي "مسيرها و روندها" در تحقيقات و مطالعـات مرتبط با "ارتباطات سلامت" در خارج از ايران است. از آنجايي كه مقوله "ارتباطات سلامت" در ايران به خصوص از منظـر علـوم اجتمـاعي، حوزهاي جديد محسوب ميشود، بسيار مهم است كه بتوان با ايجاد ارتباط بين مطالعات و تحقيقات صورت گرفته در اين زمينه، و از طريق ارايه نمايي جامع و منسجم از...

Attachment Theory is one of the most frequently used frameworks which revolutionised the understanding of human behaviour, from early childhood to adulthood. Attachment Theory's scholarly output was examined using a quantitative bibliometric approach, based on rigorous facts extracted from the WoS databases from 1970 to 2017. Overall, 1,700 documen...

هدف از این مقاله به دست دادن فهمی جامع و روشن از «اسلامی سازی دانش» در دوران معاصر می باشد، که پاسخی روشنفکرانه، علمی و احیاگرانۀ متفکران اسلامی به پروژۀ مدرنیته در چند دهۀ اخیر است. این تحقیق با استفاده از روش تحقیق اسنادی و کتابخانهای، به فراتحلیل بیش از 80 اثرخارج از ایران (مقاله، کتاب، نقد و...) در زمینۀ «اسلامیسازی دانش» پرداخته و با ارائۀ نوع...

هدف این مقاله تحلیل ساختار و نظام ارتباطی مالزی و بررسی تأثیر آن در فرآیند توسعه‌ی این کشور، به ویژه پس از استقلال است. در واقع از آنجایی که مالزی همواره به عنوان یکی از الگوهای موفق توسعه در بین کشورهای درحال توسعه و مسلمان مطرح است، پرسش تحقیق این است که ساختار ارتباطات و نظام رسانه‌ای این کشور چه نقشی در فرآیند توسعه ایفا کرده است. برای پاسخگویی...

The complexity and interconnected patterns of change in the 21st century have resulted in significant transformation in Iran. During the last two decades, much academic effort from a variety of disciplines went into trying to understand, examine and predict these transformations. However, there are no in-depth studies on these profound social and c...

This thematic edition of the Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities explores current issues and challenges in Iran within the scope of the social sciences. A total of 14 articles are presented in this edition of the journal and all the articles are written by Iranian scholars and researchers who are academic staff and researchers of the...

Due to rapid changes in science, knowledge and technology, “Scientific Diplomacy” has emerged as strategy for developing, shaping and reshaping international relations across the world. In “Scientific Diplomacy,” the smart power of a country and how seductive its ideas, science and knowledge are the key factors. In this paper, scientometric approac...

Attachment Theory is one of the most frequently used frameworks which revolutionized the understanding of human behavior, from early childhood to adulthood. Attachment Theory's scholarly output was examined using a quantitative bibliometric approach, based on rigorous facts extracted from the WoS databases from 1970 to 2017. Overall, 1,700 document...

This study explores the factors influencing the adoption of Business Intelligence Systems (BIS) in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), and also evaluate the extent of adoption in the universities. A research framework was developed based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and the Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory, co...

The main purpose of this study is to identify the most frequent and preferred communication channels used by students in interacting with their lecturers. In addition, the factors that influence students' preferred communication channels and the impact of new media on traditional media is investigated. It is illuminated that most of the students pr...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. This study focused on media choice and attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used and preferred by women in seeking information and knowledge aboutbreast cancer. Materials and Methods: A c...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. This study focused on media choice and attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used and preferred by women in seeking information and knowledge about breast cancer. A cross sectional study was carried o...

Background: In Iran, breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women and a major public health problem. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out to determine knowledge on breast cancer and breast self- examination (BSE) practices of 384 females living in the city of Hamadan, Iran. A purposive sampling method was adopted and data were...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the conflict resolution styles used by university students in handling conflicts, and to determine the effects (if any) of age, nationality and gender on how students respond to conflicts. Design/methodology/approach – The Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument was adopted to assess the confli...

The aim of this study is to report findings on the relationship of communication technology as a channel for interaction among employees which was conducted in an IT department of a multinational organization located in Malaysia. The paper examines the most used and preferred communication channel by the employee in their organization. Further, to...

Background: Customer satisfaction is one of the key success factors to the survival of any business organization. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of service recovery on customer satisfaction. Method: A cross sectional study was carried out among students and the general public in Tehran city, Iran, data was collected using validat...

Iran as a very ancient country is experiencing a different kind of media policy that is based on freedom, religion and social responsibility. A general look at the media in Iran shows that during the period after the Islamic Revolution considerable development had taken place in the area of media freedom. A wide range of press media is currently av...

Learning situations in modern society are getting increasingly complex and variable, and learners have to take more responsibility for their own learning. The main purpose of this study was to understand Iranian student’s feelings, who studying in selected Government University in Malaysia. The study was carried out through three research questions...

The aim of this paper is to report the findings on the impact of communication technology as channels on interaction between academic staff and their students, conducted at an Iranian higher learning institution. study focused on media choice and it attempted to determine the communication channels most used by academic staffs in interacting with t...

The aim of this paper is to report the findings on the impact of communication technology as a channel for interaction between academic staff and their students, conducted at a Malaysian higher learning institution. The study focused on media choice and it attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used by academic staff in interactin...