Social media in Iran : politics and society after 2009 /
edited by David M. Faris and Babak Rahimi.
- viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.
Facebookiran: social capital and the Iranian social media / Jari Eloranta, Hossein Kermani, and Babak Rahimi Gender roles in the social media world of Iranian women / Elham Gheytanchi The role of social media in the lives of gay Iranians / Abouzar Nasirzadeh Disabled Iranians on social media: reflections on the empowering experiences of the Iranian pwds in the blogosphere / Kobra Elahifar The politics of online journalism in Iran / Marcus Michaelsen The Persian blogosphere in dissent / Arash Falasiri and Nazanin Ghanavizi The politics and anti-politics of Facebook in context of the Iranian 2009 presidential elections and beyond / Mohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani Trans-spatial public action: the geography of Iranian post-election protests in the age of Web 2.0 / Reza Masoudi Nnejad Balatarin: gatekeepers and the politics of a Persian social media site / Babak Rahimi and Nima Rassooli Architectures of control and mobilization in Egypt and Iran David M. Faris Social media and the Islamic Republic / Niki Akhavan Political memory and social media: the case of Neda / Samira Rajabi Iranian cinema and social media / Michelle langford The online avant-garde: iranian video art and its technological rebellion / Staci gem Scheiwiller
First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.