American Vs Iranian University Websites: A Critical Discourse Analysis of About Pages

Authors

  • Shabnam Mokhtarnia TarbiatModares University, PO Box 14115-355 Tehran, Iran
  • Reza Ghafar- Samar TarbiatModares University, PO Box 14115-355 Tehran, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v8i3.6602

Keywords:

Institutional identity, Official websites, About pages, Colleges and universit

Abstract

In todays competitive world, official websites provide great venues for colleges and universities to express their institutional identity, an abstract representation of the complexity of the whole organization (Seidl 2005, p. 82) in order to leave an overriding impression on their potential clients and achieve institutional legitimacy and political power (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983).Thecombination of language and image areingredientsuniversity websites employ to promotetheir institutions and establish a distinct identity(e.g.,Anctil, 2008). Different sociocultural contexts, nonetheless, bear the potential to affect the way academic institutions represent their organizations on their official websites.This study, therefore,was an attempt to explore how top six Iranian and American universities used language to represent themselves on the About pages of their institutional websites. The resultsrevealed significant differences in the way these universities promoted themselves on their official partially related to larger socio-cultural forces functioning in their societies.

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Published

2015-07-15

How to Cite

Mokhtarnia, S., & Samar, R. G.-. (2015). American Vs Iranian University Websites: A Critical Discourse Analysis of About Pages. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, 8(3), 1628–1640. https://doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v8i3.6602

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