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The Resource Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran, Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany

Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran, Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany

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The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2010 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new i media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has struggled to grasp what this new phenomenon actually means. In this work, the authors give a flavour of contemporary Internet culture in Iran and analyse how this new form of communication is affecting the social and political life of the country. Although they warn against stereotyping bloggers as dissidents, they argue that the internet is changing things in ways which neither the government nor the democracy movement could have anticipated. Blogistan offers both a new reading of Iranian politics and a new conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China and beyond. -- Book cover
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eng
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xiii, 211 p.
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  • Introduction ---- 1. The Internet in Iran: Development and Control --- 2. The Politics of and in Blogging --- 3. Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran --- 4. Gender, Sexuality and Blogging --- 5. Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic --- 6. English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside --- 7. Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism --- 8. The Summer of 2009
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9781845116071
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Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran
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Blogistan
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the internet and politics in Iran
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Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany
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Language
eng
Summary
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2010 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new i media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has struggled to grasp what this new phenomenon actually means. In this work, the authors give a flavour of contemporary Internet culture in Iran and analyse how this new form of communication is affecting the social and political life of the country. Although they warn against stereotyping bloggers as dissidents, they argue that the internet is changing things in ways which neither the government nor the democracy movement could have anticipated. Blogistan offers both a new reading of Iranian politics and a new conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China and beyond. -- Book cover
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Sreberny, Annabelle
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non fiction
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Khiabany, Gholam
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International library of Iranian studues
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18
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  • Blogs
  • Blogs
  • Political participation
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Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran, Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index
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Introduction ---- 1. The Internet in Iran: Development and Control --- 2. The Politics of and in Blogging --- 3. Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran --- 4. Gender, Sexuality and Blogging --- 5. Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic --- 6. English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside --- 7. Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism --- 8. The Summer of 2009
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0717286223
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22 cm.
Extent
xiii, 211 p.
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9781845116071
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unmediated
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Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran, Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction ---- 1. The Internet in Iran: Development and Control --- 2. The Politics of and in Blogging --- 3. Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran --- 4. Gender, Sexuality and Blogging --- 5. Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic --- 6. English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside --- 7. Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism --- 8. The Summer of 2009
Control code
0717286223
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
xiii, 211 p.
Isbn
9781845116071
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
ill. tables

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