Faris / Rahimi Social Media in Iran

Politics and Society after 2009
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5884-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faris, David M.

Rahimi, Babak

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
David M. Faris and Babak Rahimi

Part I. Societal

1. Facebook Iran: Social Capital and the Iranian Social Media
Jari Eloranta, Hossein Kermani, and Babak Rahimi

2. Gender Roles in the Social Media World of Iranian Women
Elham Gheytanchi

3. The Role of Social Media in the Lives of Gay Iranians
Abouzar Nasirzadeh

4. Disabled Iranians on Social Media: Reflections on the Empowering Experiences of the Iranian PWDs in the Blogosphere
Kobra Elahifar

Part II. Politics

5. The Politics of Online Journalism in Iran
Marcus Michaelsen

6. The Persian Blogosphere in Dissent
Arash Falasiri and Nazanin Ghanavizi

7. The Politics and Anti-Politics of Facebook in Context of the Iranian 2009 Presidential Elections and Beyond
Mohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani

8. Trans-spatial Public Action: The Geography of Iranian Post-Election Protests in the Age of Web 2.0
Reza Masoudi Nejad

9. Balatarin: Gatekeepers and the Politics of a Persian Social Media Site
Babak Rahimi and Nima Rassooli

10. Architectures of Control and Mobilization in Egypt and Iran
David M. Faris

11. Social Media and the Islamic Republic
Niki Akhavan

12. Political Memory and Social Media: The Case of Neda
Samira Rajabi

Part III. Culture

13. Iranian Cinema and Social Media
Michelle Langford

14. The Online Avant-Garde: Iranian Video Art and Its Technological Rebellion
Staci Gem Scheiwiller

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Faris is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Roosevelt University and the author of Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt. Babak Rahimi is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture, and Religion at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran: Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590–1641 CE.