a remarkable part of foreign cultural products is the audiomedial texts like feature films and tv series. they have a more extensive addressee circle on the basis of the medium, through which they are transferred. these products fascinate many people and therefore play a very vital role within intercultural relations. there are many people who are not able to speak other languages except their ...

this exploratory study attempts to shed some light on the ethnocentric behaviours of young iranians in relation to the global consumer culture. it demonstrates why and how these individuals adhere to their own cultural resources and refrain from consuming the products or daily life practices of other cultures. the analysis of interpretive interviews with twelve participants in tehran and karaj ...

Despite their implications for careers, cultural goods and honours in the field of cultural production have rarely been examined as career events by culture researchers. More typically, cultural prizes are examined as they relate to the process of cultural valorization or are used to construct samples of venerated cultural products or producers for subsequent analysis. However, embedding cultur...

Abstract: Culture has a significant role in our life. We will show different cultural models (Hofstede, Hall and Trompenaars). This study aims to examine the effect of culture and its dimensions on web page and user interface from different viewpoints. It suggests a model to improve and facilitate the usability of software products and web pages, leading to increase the performance and effectiv...

How does the process of information transmission affect the cultural products that emerge from that process? This question is often studied experimentally and computationally via iterated learning, in which participants learn from previous participants in a chain. Much research in this area builds on mathematical analyses suggesting that iterated learning chains converge to people’s priors. We ...

The increasing customer awareness of environmental sustainability during the last decade has had an influence on many manufacturers to produce green products. However, issues arise regarding actual preferences customers for products, which often differ depending cultural influences. Cultural values can affect decisions designers determine detailed design specifications that relate preferences. ...

Cultural landscapes are increasingly understood as something not merely to be protected. The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) and the European Landscape Convention (ELC) as well as the new Concepts and Strategies for Spatial Development in Germany propose considering cultural landscapes also as a force to promote cooperative regional development. Common historical roots, special ...