in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

This study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  Forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  One group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

searching the reasons for the superiority of one text over another with the same theme and the same subject has long been a vital question up on the minds of literary critics. dealing with these types of texts, this critical question has always been outstanding in the mind of serious literary critics that why the narration of one author is more cohesive than the other's. so analyzing the s...

Henry James’ novel The Turn of the Screw is notorious for its ambiguous nature about the ghostly figures that keep haunting the protagonist the governess. This paper attempts to give the study of this novel another turn of the screw by arguing that it is a hybrid of popular culture of ghost stories and high culture of psychological studies of ghosts. It is intended by Henry James as a blueprint...

the distinguished gender language of the dominant gender discourse in the social atmosphere of iran, as one of the most influential phenomenon determining the linguistic and non-linguistic actions of individuals, has been appeared in the popular magazines. it seems that the ruling ideology of the dominant gender discourse is to construct and use the self-made gender view that preserves its inte...

INTEROPERABILITY What's Happening Out There? Achieving Interoperability is a popular word in the world of medical devices, and many believe it is the answer to some of healthcare's thorniest problems. This article takes a close look at what three healthcare facilities are doing today with one very important piece of the interoperability puzzle: the integration of device data into electronic med...

Traditional Newspapers have been struggling to find a new business model to economically survive in this new wave of digital social revolution. This study uses ontology of a multi-gated model to suggest that program designers use different kinds of most popular news cues to satisfy diverse citizens’ needs. Different concepts of citizens are discussed theoretically in exploring how a social sema...

USING WEB ARCHIVES TO ENRICH THE LIVE WEB EXPERIENCE THROUGH STORYTELLING Yasmin AlNoamany Old Dominion University, 2016 Director: Dr. Michael L. Nelson Much of our cultural discourse occurs primarily on the Web. Thus, Web preservation is a fundamental precondition for multiple disciplines. Archiving Web pages into themed collections is a method for ensuring these resources are available for po...

Usability is a critical quality factor. Therefore, like traditional software teams, agile teams have to address usability to properly catch their users experience. There exists an interesting debate in the agile and usability communities about how to achieve this integration. Our aim is to contribute to this debate by discussing the incorporation of particular usability recommendations into use...