Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran /
Sreberny, Annabelle, 1949-2022
Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany. - London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xiii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - International library of Iranian studies ; v. 18 . - International library of Iranian studies ; .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index.
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new 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. How is it different from print culture[unk] Is it really a new public sphere[unk] Will the Iranian blogosphere create a culture of dissidence, which eventually overpowers the Islamist regime[unk] In this groundbreaking 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.
9781845116071 1845116070
2011379131
GBA9B3976 bnb
Political participation--Technological innovations--Iran.
Participación política --Innovaciones tecnológicas
Blogs--Political aspects--Iran.
Blogs --Aspectos políticos--Irán
Blogs--Social aspects--Iran.
Blogs --Aspectos sociales--Irán
JQ 1789 / S774b 2010
302.2310955
Blogistan : the internet and politics in Iran / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany. - London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xiii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - International library of Iranian studies ; v. 18 . - International library of Iranian studies ; .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index.
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new 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. How is it different from print culture[unk] Is it really a new public sphere[unk] Will the Iranian blogosphere create a culture of dissidence, which eventually overpowers the Islamist regime[unk] In this groundbreaking 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.
9781845116071 1845116070
2011379131
GBA9B3976 bnb
Political participation--Technological innovations--Iran.
Participación política --Innovaciones tecnológicas
Blogs--Political aspects--Iran.
Blogs --Aspectos políticos--Irán
Blogs--Social aspects--Iran.
Blogs --Aspectos sociales--Irán
JQ 1789 / S774b 2010
302.2310955