Hamid Abdollahyan

@ut.ac.ir

Communication/Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Tehran



                          

https://researchid.co/habdolah

Hamid Abdollahyan is a Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran. His research interests include new media and cultural differences, Media and Public Sphere, Cultural Studies and Generations' Gap, Consumer Culture and Automobile Industry, Research Methods in Communications Studies, Comparative Dimensions of Sociology, Communication and History, Historical Sociology, Social Networking, Human-computer Interaction, Internet World and its Problematic for Science. His writings have appeared as a book titled Conceptualization of Reality in Historical Sociology; Narrating Absentee-Landlordism in Iran (2004), Comparative Perspectives in Sociology, Anthropology and Communication (2008). He also has published several articles in Journals such as Alternate Routes, Critique; Critical Middle Eastern Studies, WeltTrends, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Journal of Media and Religion, Iranian Social Science

EDUCATION

PhD in Sociology, from Carleton University

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Sociology and Political Science, Development, Communication

FUTURE PROJECTS

spacialisation

the relations between space and social relations.


Applications Invited

Historical Sociology of Iran

It deals with development issues concerning Iranian land reform and development.


Applications Invited
1182

Scholar Citations

11

Scholar h-index

13

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Propaganda in the Digital Age Global Conflicts, Media, Politics, and Fake News
    Y Kamalipour
     2025

  • An Analysis of Semantic Network: Social Blame During the Coronavirus Pandemic in Iran
    H Abdollahyan, S Saleh
    Propaganda in the Digital Age Global Conflicts, Media, Politics, and Fake 2025

  • Studying the Critical Approach in the Novel" The Curse of the Earth" by Jalal Al-Ahmad
    H Abdollahyan
    Journal of Literary Criticism and Rhetoric 2025

  • Development of the Theory of Narrative Interpretation of Iran's History: a Critical Approach to Katouzian's Approach to Government and Society in Iran
    H Abdollahyan
    Sociological Review 32 (1), 241-265 2025

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  • Geopolitical Area of Fake Users: Measuring the Effectiveness and Penetration of Fake News in the Core and Centrality of the Persian Twitter Chat Network during the Corona
    H Abdollahyan, A Tafreshi, M Bahar
    (RASANE VA FARHANG) 14 (1), 121-159 2024

  • Economic Aspects of Social Media: Facebooks Potential for Generating Business in Iran
    H Abdollahyan, MS Ansari
    The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life, 37-59 2024

  • Network Analysis of Twitter Users in Iran; Studying Public Sphere Properties
    H Abdollahyan, S Saleh
    Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology 39 (117 2024

  • Marvin krohn's network theory, big data, and network analysis: Studying social deviance in social media
    S Mirzaee, A Aliverdinia, H Abdollahyan, ME Riahi
    Sociology of Social Institutions 9 (20), 219-252 2023

  • Children's reception of critical concepts in animated movies
    M Alehpour, H Abdollahyan
    Media International Australia 184 (1), 136-149 2022

  • Historical Sociology of Iran: The Analysis and Interpretation of the Role of Young and Old Politicians in Political Field of Iran, Post-constitutional Revolution Till the 1960s
    H Abdollahyan, S Karimi
    Sociological Review 29 (1), 345-367 2022

  • Analysis and Explanation of the Causal Relationship Between the Online Game Clash of Clans and Behavioral Changes of the Players.
    H Abdollahyan, M Atakhani
    Global Media Journal-Persian Edition 16 (2), 75-105 2022

  • Studying Power and Resistance Relations in Contemporary World: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Experience of the 2015 Arbaeen March
    H Abdollahyan, SM Tabatabaei
    Iranian Journal of Anthropological Research 11 (2), 33-67 2022

  • A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING IOT TO IRAN WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION
    H Abdollahyan, Z Asadi
    Content, Community & Communication 13 2021

  • A Study on the Representation of the Lifestyle of Iranian Women in Family Magazines Advertisements
    F Bazyar, H Abdollahyan, T Azadarmaki, M Navabakhsh
    Cultural Studies & Communication 17 (62), 27-50 2021


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  • Childrens Reception of Critical Contents in Brave and Frozen
    H Abdollahyan, M Alepour
    Journal of Social Problems of Iran 11 (2), 233-255 2021

  • SPSS KolmogorovSmirnov test for normality
    S Tutorials
     2021

  • Phenomenology of the lived experiences of lonely aged women from abandonment and rejection
    K Alikarami, A Maleki, H Abdollahyan, M Rezaei
    Social Welfare 21 (80), 233-262 2021

  • An ethnographic study of communication between humans, nature, and place: In search of a sense of belonging in Abarkouhi Homes, Iran
    H Abdollahyan, F Mohammadi
    Space and Culture 23 (4), 522-535 2020

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The digital divide
    M Ragnedda, GW Muschert
    Routledge 2013
    Citations: 798

  • Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: an encyclopedia
    AL Stanton, E Ramsamy, PJ Seybolt, CM Elliott
    SAGE publications 2012
    Citations: 73

  • Digital inclusion: An international comparative analysis
    G Goggin, H Abdollahyan, MS Ansari, O Ben-Harush, A Chen, L Dalvit, ...
    Bloomsbury Publishing USA 2018
    Citations: 45

  • The generations gap in contemporary Iran
    H Abdollahyan
    JOURNAL OF WELT TRENDS 44, 75-85 2004
    Citations: 28

  • Measuring the functionality of rural management in Iran based on the factors affecting the management process in rural Iran
    H Abdollahyan, S Shariati, E Shooshtarizadeh
    Management Research in Iran 10 (20), 227-267 2006
    Citations: 19

  • Conceptualizing occupational prestige: An empirical case study from Iran
    H Abdollahyan, H Nayebi
    Asian Journal of Social Science 37 (2), 192-207 2009
    Citations: 15

  • The lived experience of loneliness among aged women (A phenomenological study)
    K Alikarami, A Maleki, H Abdollahyan, M Rezaei
    Women's Strategic Studies 21 (83), 7-30 2019
    Citations: 14

  • Phenomenology of the lived experiences of lonely aged women from abandonment and rejection
    K Alikarami, A Maleki, H Abdollahyan, M Rezaei
    Social Welfare 21 (80), 233-262 2021
    Citations: 13

  • A survey analysis of digital literacy among undergraduate students of the University of Tehran
    H Abdollahyan, M Ahmadi
    Amity Journal of Media and Communication 1 (1), 1-6 2011
    Citations: 13

  • SPSS KolmogorovSmirnov test for normality
    S Tutorials
     2021
    Citations: 12

  • Social stratification and its indices: A critique
    H Nayebi, H Abdollahyan
    Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 15 (3), 249-263 2006
    Citations: 12

  • An analysis of the second-level digital divide in Iran: A case study of University of Tehran undergraduate students
    H Abdollahyan, M Semati, M Ahmadi
    The Digital Divide, 237-250 2013
    Citations: 11

  • An analysis of the influence of radio political campaign messages on voters electoral behavior in Kano, Nigeria
    H Abdollahyan, A Machika
    International Journal of Social Sciences (IJSS) 7 (2), 59-72 2017
    Citations: 10

  • Media culture in transnational Asia: Convergences and divergences
    M Dodd, R Amit, S Arora, J Jotwani, DWS Lau, WM Wang, J Gagnon, ...
    Rutgers University Press 2020
    Citations: 9

  • Gender and generations modes of religiosity: locality versus globality of Iranian media
    H Abdollahyan
    Journal of media and religion 7 (1-2), 4-33 2008
    Citations: 8

  • A Qualitative Analysis of Intentional Abortion and Phenomenology of Women's Lived Experience: Some Case Studies of Women in Tehran
    H Abd Elaheian, M FALAH
    JOURNAL OF POPULATION ASSOCIATION OF IRAN 3 (5), 55-80 2008
    Citations: 7

  • Networked publics in Farsi Twitter; an analysis of the Twitter network clusters
    H Abdollahyan, H Kermani
    New Media Studies 6 (22), 70-100 2020
    Citations: 6

  • Conceptualizing gender gap in Iran
    H Abdollahyan
    Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association Congress, Quebec 28 2001
    Citations: 6

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