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        1 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution or the New Renaissance? Review focusing on the role of the media
        dariush mahjoobi
        The era we live in is referred to as a fault or a historical leap. The fault and leap in front of us can continue in two distinct and different ways: 1) The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution and based on the attitudes of t More
        The era we live in is referred to as a fault or a historical leap. The fault and leap in front of us can continue in two distinct and different ways: 1) The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution and based on the attitudes of the European Renaissance of the 15th century. 2) New Renaissance: A much broader and deeper development that the New Renaissance will be a leap from the European Renaissance. This article compares some of the needs for the continuation of each of the two distinct trends - the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the New Renaissance - with a brief focus on the role of the media. Manuscript profile
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        2 - The role of information and communication technology in the globalization of the media industry
        sohila goodarzi
        New communication technologies have not only affected the range of audiences, but have even been able to question the foundation of classical communication theories. For example, the sender, channel, and receiver model in traditional communication theories has become a More
        New communication technologies have not only affected the range of audiences, but have even been able to question the foundation of classical communication theories. For example, the sender, channel, and receiver model in traditional communication theories has become a model of content-producing communities with the advent of media such as user-centric networks or social networks, in which each person is a sender and receiver continuously at all times and has multiple roles. In this communication channel. These technological developments inherently contain challenges and threats that some experts have referred to as soft warfare, but this is just a coin, these developments apply to all countries of the world, and if anyone is to be harmed, it is certainly that society. Will be the one to take a defensive guard against these technologies. The introduction and development of new technologies in media organizations have brought about many changes that have affected the structure and management of media organizations. This article tries to study the impact of new technologies on the media and its developments on a case-by-case basis. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Smartization of Iran's Tourism Industry: An emphasis on Social and Cultural Empowerment
        Farnoush Zangouei Zahra Kharazi Mohammadvandi Azar Jamshid Salehi Sadaghiyani
        The main purpose of this article was to investigate the role of social and cultural empowerment in institutionalizing smart programs of Iran's tourism industry and identify the components of smart tourism in Iran's urban destinations. As a mixed-method research, this st More
        The main purpose of this article was to investigate the role of social and cultural empowerment in institutionalizing smart programs of Iran's tourism industry and identify the components of smart tourism in Iran's urban destinations. As a mixed-method research, this study used contractual qualitative content analysis within its qualitative phase and a survey in its quantitative phase. As for the qualitative phase, 13 Iranian tourism managers were selected and interviewed through targeted and snowball sampling. Moreover, to conduct the quantitative phase, 390 travel agency experts were selected via convenience sampling, using Cochran's formula. The results of analyzing the data via structural equation modeling with the partial least squares approach showed that all observable and hidden variables were significant at the level of 0/05, all of which were confirmed. Furthermore, socio-cultural empowerment, smart governance, development of new smart technologies applications, and comprehensive smart tourism services were identified as components of the smart tourism industry in Iran. In addition, based on the Stone-Geisser index, the redundancy index of the social and cultural empowerment component was calculated to be 0/523 and based on its value in the final model (0/528), the strong predictive power of the model was confirmed. Manuscript profile