background and aims: internet seems to be increasingly involved a major part of the daily lives of population. in recent years, many reports have confirmed the huge number of internet users worldwide. this article is seeking to explore the factors contributing to the tendency to internet in students of shahrekord university of medical sciences (skums) and aimed to recommend some preventive stra...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: some of the most frequently used webometric indicators for evaluating and ranking academic web sites are web impact factor, number of web pages and number of inlinks. the present study evaluated and ranked top iranian medical universities according to the webometric indicators. methods: the present cross-sect...

podcasting has become a popular means of transferring knowledge in higher education through making lecture contents available to students at their convenience. accessing courses on media players provides students with enhanced learning opportunities. development of teaching methods able to cope with ever-changing nature of medicine is crucial to train the millennium students. pharmacology educa...

many peoples think there is neither rulers nor rules in the internet and it seems to be a hodge bodge. although it is not totally false, but is not completely true and includes some ignorance of facts which affect this space. as the people now a days deal with the internet, it is necessary to obtain some information of facts relevant to it. we will, in this assay, show that there are the both p...

the aim of this paper is to show that modern media are not totally independent of the older media and that there is, specifically, a kind of language transfer from older media such as television to the modern ones. although internet users enjoy relatively more freedom in the virtual reality public domains compared with real public domains, their political communications in negotiation rooms are...

Introduction: The internet is an essential and widely used toolfor college students; however, high internet dependency can havenegative consequences for students, especially regarding academiccareers. Such students may tend to postpone their academic tasks.Hence, the current study examines the effect of Internet addictionon academic procrastination among medical st...

The present research has been conducted aiming at specifying how the youth use internet and how they are influenced of emerging media via survey as the research method. The statistical population (200445) consists of 18-30 years old youth in Kashan. The sample (384) was selected using random sampling method via Morgan table. To elaborate the hypotheses, Tajfel&#39s theory has been used to speci...