CHAIR-WRITING; SEMANTIC RECONSTRUCTION OF CHAIR-WRITING STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE: A CASE STUDY OF PAYAM NOOR SAQEZ UNIVERSITY

Mahvash Janmardi

Abstract

Chair-Writing has become more and more prevalent in academic environments, intensifying in recent decades. Chair-Writing has become a form of social anomaly and has shaped various forms of impressionism. The present study utilizes Filed Theory to understand the conditions, interactions and consequences of chair-writing in the classrooms of Payam Noor Saqez University. For the purpose of present study, and for the theoretical saturation method, chair-writing content analysis was used and in-depth interview with 58 chair-writing students was performed by sampling method. Data collection was coded and analyzed in terms of concepts, major legal categories. According to the findings of the study, the majority of chair-writing students are in the age group 18-22 with 32.8%, men with 55.2%, single men with 67.2%, unemployed with 72.4%, humanities group with 67.2% and those medium socio-economic base with 55.2%. Interviews with chair-writing students showed that the subjects, i.e. chair-writers turned to writing on the chairs to respond to "livelihood stress", "social relationship disorder", and "university problems". "Lack of legal prohibition at the university" served as facilitating conditions and "influence of friends" as grounds for intervention. Students experience and comprehend chair-writing as "communicating with others", "critical tools", "new risk communication channel", "hidden practices", "fun tools", "cost-less tools " and "hidden resistance". The subjects view  "awareness", "chair-as-a-medium" and "covert resistance" as positive consequences of and "economic harm" and "inappropriate academic manifestation" as negative consequences of chair-writing.

Keywords: Char-writing, Student, Communication Channel, Field Theory, Chair as a Medium, Legal Prohibition.