the aim of this study was to explain and prioritize the barriers facing privatization of sports in iran. first, complementary data were gathered, coded and analyzed through the review of the theoretical bases, comparative studies and deep semi–structured interviews with experts in order to identify the barriers facing privatization of sports. after identifying the barriers, the obtained variabl...

Advances in human dynamics research and availability of geo-referenced communication data provide an unprecedented opportunity for studying the semantics of communication and understanding the interplay between online social networks and geography. Among the most extensively studied topics in geographically-embedded communication networks, are the effect of geographic proximity on interpersonal...

Assuming that interpersonal communication is a “deeply cultured process,” (Philipsen, 1992) this essay illuminates the different ways interpersonal communication is conceptualized in the U.S. and China through reviewing studies of one core symbol — face — in the two cultures. It demonstrates that embedded in the face concept are culture-specific notions of personhood that give rise to culturesp...

this paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in southwestern nigeria. the data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six southwestern states in nigeria (osun, oyo, ondo, ekiti, ogun, and lagos). the data were analyzed using halliday’s (1985) syste...