Communication Research

Social Imagination Patterns in the Radio and Virtual User- Generated Media

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ahmad Bokharayee 1
Asefeh Tavakoli Khomeini 2

1 Assistant Prof. in Sociology of Payam Noor Uni.

2 Sociology

https://doi.org/10.22082/cr.2016.21015
Abstract
In social literature, social imagination is a new concept that on the one hand, it determines the social structure, and on the other hand, it has a significant role to build the social processes. Media is one of the Social determinants to generate imaginations. In this study, Social imaginary patterns among users of radio and virtual user generated media users have analyzed. To achieve this goal, using qualitative and semi-structured interviews, and employing MAXQDA10 software, has been identified four models of “individualist imagination”, “meta-material individualist fantasies”, “oriented-development fantasies tool“ and, “utopian social imagination” within radio users. Among the virtual user generated media, the only imagination pattern that has obtained is “consumed meta-real imagination” in which manufacturer of messages or audience's self-idealizing application of consumption will extend to mental convincing. These media are small social power that forms the audience's imagination. Imaginary-based social stream that manufactured in both media is somewhat individual idealizing, which has less social objectives that are inclined to other.

Keywords

Social Imagination
Radio
User Generated Media
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  • Receive Date 06 August 2015
  • Revise Date 25 October 2015
  • Accept Date 02 February 2016

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