چکیده:
This article is to study how media role and function in interpreting or changing surrounding world is represented in Iranian contemporary fiction. The purpose is determining that media which leads every other phenomenon to being represented, how is dragged to the scene of representation itself. This is also proposed to give a picture of explanation and acknowledgement of media epidemic presence in real society in order to analyze the relation between power and prevalence of media in Persian novel and its social role and function in real world. Therefore 12 Persian realistic novels whose authors live in Iran and are published in I. R. IRAN are chosen by targeted sampling method for qualitative research. All phrases about traditional media as radio, TV, newspaper and magazine are derived from these texts and are analyzed on basis of theories of media power, representation, literary Criticism and sociology of literature, in accordance with cultural studies requirements for understanding media.Findings revealed that Media is represented as “power and trigger tool”, “awareness tool”, “negligence tool”, “routine thing”, “informative tool”, “Hobby tool”, “Contradictive phenomenon/tool”, “secondhand thing”, “Criticism tool” and “presenter phenomenon” in the world of Persian novel.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Article Received: 2020-03-22; Article Accepted: 2021-09-22 Scientific-Research Abstract The present article is written with the aim of studying how the role and function of mass media are reflected in the interpretation or change of the surrounding world in the context of contemporary Persian story literature in Iran.
The clear difference between written media and audio-visual media in social role-playing and emphasis on oral culture, the acceptance of television and radio as the main gateway to receiving information and gaining awareness, versus the selective role of newspapers in daily life, and even less frequent non-daily publications and magazines, which indicate passive audience selection, media weakness and the lack of a specific and solid place for mass media among the general public, the consumption of written media as a component of the lives of the elite and disregard for the general audience, and the lack of appropriate understanding of the activities and characteristics of media people in society, are results obtained from the analysis of the novels.
The way the media is reflected in this novel is summarized in Table No. 2 as follows: (Refer to the image on the page) In “We Get Used To It,” magazines and radio are everyday tools for passing the time, and television is described as being only for entertainment.
The way the media is reflected in this novel is summarized in Table 6: Table 6: The Fairy of Forgetfulness (230 pages) (Refer to the image on the page) Television in the daily life of the characters in this work is usually a tool for diverting the mind from a topic, spending time aimlessly, and making a person appear busy.