Naiim Badii

Department of Communication Sciences
College of Social Sciences
Allameh Tabatabaii University

Publications
Articles
Papers
Research

EDUCATION

      B. S.  (1973): Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

                              Major: Journalism & Broadcasting      

      M. S.  (1976): Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA          

                              Major: Mass Communication

      Ph. D. (1980): Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois,  USA                         

                              Major: Journalism   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

      2002-2003: Visiting Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication

                         University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

      2000-       :  Professor of Communication Sciences, College of Social                    

                         Sciences,  Allameh Tabatabaii University (ATU), Tehran.             

      1993-2000: Associate Professor of Communication Sciences, College of

                         Social Sciences, ATU.

      1980-1993: Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences, College of 

                         Social Sciences, ATU.

      1983-2001: Director, Department of Communication Sciences, College 

                         of Social Sciences, ATU.

      1992-1996: Vice-President for Research and Instruction, College of

                         Social Sciences, ATU.       

      1983-1984: Vice-President for Research and Instruction, College of

                         Social Sciences, ATU.

      1978-1980: Graduate Research Assistant, School of Journalism,

                         Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

      1975-1977: Graduate teaching assistant, School of Journalism &                           

                         Broadcasting, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.                         

      1973-1974: News reporter, copyreader, foreign news desk translator, 

                         and wire selector, Kayhan, Tehran.

      Sum. 1973: News reporter, translator, Kayhan International (English

                         Edition),  Tehran. 

      1967-1969: Staff writer, Kayhan Bacheha (Kayhan's Children 

                         Magazine), Tehran

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTEREST

• Teaching Experience: College of Social Sciences, ATU, Tehran,  Since 1980.

• Teaching Interests and Specialties: Theories of Mass

  • Communication, Research Methods in Mass Communications, 

  • Content Analysis in Mass Communication, International              

  • Communication, News Writing Principles.

•   Current Faculty Status: Professor, Rank 24

 HONORS AND AWARDS

•   Kappa Tau Alpha, Journalism Honorary Society, 1979

•  Dissertation Research Award, SIU-C, 1980

•  Distinguished Researcher of the Year, 1997.

MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

        "The Press and Civil Society: A Study of Development Obstacles and Standards of Ideal Journalism in Iran," Allameh Tabatabaii University, Tehran, 2002, 235 pages.     

     “People, Media and Tehran Water Crisis: A Survey Study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Behravior of Tehran Residents Concerning Water Shortage and Consumption,” Public Relations Department, Tehran Water and Sewage Company, Tehran, 2001, 350 pages.

     “Content Analysis of Iran Stories in Tehran Daily Newspapers: A Discourse Analysis  of 1989 and 1997 Years,” Center for Media Studies and Research, Tehran, 1999, 279 pages.

     “A Content Analysis of 10 Weekly Papers,” Center for Media Studies and Research, Tehran, 1998, 320 pages.

     “ A Content Analysis of 10 Tehran Daily Newspapers,” Center for Media Studies and Research, Tehran, 1996, 200 pages.

RESEARCH

• Research Interests

  • International news flow

  • News values

  • Gatekeeping

  • Audience analysis

  • Media credibility and trust

•   Current Research Projects

        "A Study of Media Credibility and Its Relation to the People's Trust in Government"

       “ A Study of the Impact of Online Journalism on Traditional Newspapers”

ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL

•   English

           "A Content Analysis of 10 Tehran Newspapers," Rasaneh, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 1-6.

            "Content Characteristics of Major Iranian Newspapers: A Comparative Analysis of Six Tehran Dailies," Cahiers d' Etudes sur la Mediterranee Orientale et le Monde Turco-Iranian (C.E.M.O.T.I.), No. 20, juillet-december 1995, pp. 45-70.

            "How the Tehran Press Responded to the 1979 Iranian Revolution," Journalism Quarterly, 63: 3 (Autumn 1986), pp. 517-523 & 536, (with L. Erwin Atwood).

            "The Nature of News in Four Dimensions," Journalism Quarterly, 57: 2 (Summer 1980), pp. 243-248, (with Walter J. Ward).

            "How Readers Perceive Objective and Interpretative Reporting," Midwest Communication Research Journal, 2 (1979), pp. 20-32.

• Persian 

"A Study of Readers' Letters and Telephone Calls in Tehran Newspapers: 1990 & 1997," Rasaneh (Media), a quarterly journal of media studies and research, Iran (Winter  2000), Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 43-50. 

           "A Discourse Analysis of President's Speeches in 1997," Etellaat Siyasi- Eghtesadi, (February-March 2000), Vol. 14, Nos. 5, 6, pp. 22-31.

           "Content Analysis of 10 Tehran Daily Newspapers,"  Rasaneh (Media), (Spring 1998), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 22-33.

           "Content Analysis," Namayeh Pazhohesh, Vol. 1, Nos. 3,4, Fall and Winter 1997-1998, pp. 42-53.

           "The Flow of International News In Iran," Nameh Pazhohesh, a quarterly journal of cultural studies, Vol. 1, Nos. 2, 3, Autumn 1996/Winter 1997, pp. 57-89.

           "Content Analysis: How to Calculate Reliability Coefficient," Research in Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 25-31.

          "A Study of Students' Trust in News Media," Social Science Quarterly, Autumn / Winter 1995 -1996, Nos. 7, 8, pp. 179-216.

          "Some Observations Concerning News Writing for the Press," Rasaneh (Media), Special Educational Issue 1995, No.1, pp. 42-55.

            "The Structure of International News in Tehran Dailies," Social Science Quarterly, Winter / Spring 1993, Vol. 1, Nos. 2, 3, pp. 29-55.

            "How Readers Perceive the Function of Daily Newspaper," Social Science Quarterly, Autumn/Winter 1992, Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2, pp.  205-234.

                     "Headline: Persuading Reader to Read", Rasaneh (Media), Iran (Summer 1991), Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 48-53, (With Hossein Ghandi).

            "Mass Communication Students' Perception of Tehran Newspapers," Rasaneh (Media), (Autumn 1990), Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 22-29.

            "How to Persuade Readers to Read," Rasaneh (Media), Iran (Summer

1990), Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 44-47.

            "News Selection Criteria," Rasaneh (Media), Iran (Spring 1990), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 40-45.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

         "A Study of the Role of Mass Media in Changing Tehran Residents' Attitudes, Knowledge and Behavior Concerning the Shortage and Consumption of Water," the First Tehran-Madrid Joint Conference On Optimal Water Consumption, Management, Tehran, January 15-16, 2002.

         “Journalism Methods and “Dialogue Among Civilizations,” UNESCO’s  Inter-Regional Seminar on Central and Western Asian countries and Information Society, Tehran, 3-5 September 2001.

         "The Problems of Press Development in Post-revolutionary Iran: Perspectives for Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic Press," the XX World Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Sydney, Australia, August 1996.

         "How the Iranian Press Covered Intentional Conflicts: A Content Analysis of Middle-Easter and North-African News in Major Tehran Daily Newspapers, The XIX World Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Seoul, South Korea, July 1994.

                 "Development News in Iran Press: A Content Analysis of Six Tehran Daily Newspapers," conference on the Application of Socio-Economic Research in Development Planning, Allameh Tabatabaii University, Tehran, January 1993.  

            "A Content Analysis of International News in Major Tehran Dailies," the International Communication Section, The XVIII World Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Sao Paulo (Guarj), Brazil, August 1992, (with Kazem Motamed-Nejad).

            "The Iranian Press and the Persian Gulf War: A Content analysis of Major Tehran Daily Newspapers," regional conference, International Association For Mass Communication research, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1991 (with Kazem Motamed-Nejad and Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad).

                 "Readers' Perception of the Function of Daily Newspapers," first seminar on the Iranian Press Problems, Tehran, Iran, February 1991.

                 "Content Characteristics of the Tehran Press Before, During and After the 1979 Revolution," annual conference, International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 1984, (with L. Erwin Atwood).

                 "Readers' Perception of Objective and Interpretative Reporting," annual Conference, Western Social Sciences Associations, Albuquerque, N.M., April 1980.

PUBLICATIONS

• Chapter in a Book

         "Q-methodology," in Hossein Rahmanserest, ed.,  Research & Evaluation in Social  & Behavioral Sciences,  vol. 1, Tehran: Allameh Tabatabaii University, 2000, pp. 155-186.

            "The Problems of Press Freedom in Iran: From the Constitutional Revolution to the Islamic Revolution," in Joel Thierstein and Yahya R.  Kamalipour, eds., Religion, Law and Freedom: A Global Perspective, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000, pp. 47-62 (with Kazem Motamed-Nejad).

           "A Picture of Tehran's Newspaper," Rasaneh: Collection of Articles, Tehran Center for Media Studies and Research, 1995.

            "The Iranian Press and the Persian Gulf War: The Impact of Western News Agencies," in Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller, eds., Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf -- A Global Perspective, (Boulder, Col.: Westview press, 1992), pp. 99-104 (with Kazem Motamed-Nejad and Mehdi Mohsenian- Rad).

•  Books

        Modern Journalism, Tehran: Allameh Tabatabaii University Press, 1999, with Hossein Ghandi.  (second printing, 2002)

        Communication Science Dictionary: Persian, English, French, Tehran: Allameh Tabatabaii University Press, with Kazem Motamed-Nejad, in press. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

• Recently courses taught

• Research Methods in Mass Communication, (MS level)

• Content Analysis of Communication, (MS level)

• Statistics for Communication Research, (MS level)

• Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS), (MS level)

• Advanced Research Methods in Communication, (Ph.D. level)

• Seminar on Content Analysis of communication, (Ph.D. level)

• Multivariate and Regression Analysis, (Ph.D.)

• Previously courses taught

• Principle of News Writing (BS level)

• Advanced News writing (BS level)

• Political Communication (BS level)

• Research Methods in Communication (BS level)

• Social Statistics (BS level)

THESIS AND DISSERTATION TITLES

            "The Nature of News in Four Dimensions: Normality, Prominence, Significance, Reward," M.S. Thesis, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1976, major advisor, Dr. Walter J. Ward.

            "A Content Analysis of Iranian Daily Newspapers Before, During and After the 1979 Revolution," Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1980, major advisor,  Dr. L. Erwin Atwood.