Electronic Iran [electronic resource] : The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Akhavan, Niki,1975-
Piscataway : Rutgers University Press,
2013.
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. It draws from early Internet ethnographies, accounts in media studies that highlight the continuities between old and new media, and a range of works that have made critical interventions in the field of Iranian studies to confront conventional wisdom about digital media in general, and contemporary Iranian culture and politics in particul
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Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Nascent Networks; 1. Reembodied Nationalisms; 2. Uncharted Blogospheres; 3. The Movable Image; 4. Social Media and the Message; Conclusion: New Media Futures; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. It draws from early Internet ethnographies, accounts in media studies that highlight the continuities between old and new media, and a range of works that have made critical interventions in the field of Iranian studies to confront conventional wisdom about digital media in general, and contemporary Iranian culture and politics in particul
Internet and activism -- Iran.
Mass media and nationalism -- Iran.
Online social networks -- Political aspects -- Iran.
Online social networks
Internet and activism
Mass media and nationalism
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Change