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Small Media, Big Revolution Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution

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ISBN-10: 0816622175

ISBN-13: 9780816622177

Edition: 1994

Authors: Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Ali Mohammadi

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To most Westerners, the Iranian revolution was a shocking spectacle, a distant mass upheaval suddenly breaking into the daily news. It was, in fact, a revolution of the television era, as this book demonstrates. This account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian revolution also considers revolution as communication in the modern world. Co-authored by participants in the revolutionary upheaval, this study reflects a wide perspective. Drawing on ten years of research, the authors vividly show how the processes and products of modernization actually helped to undermine the very foundation of modernity in Iran. Their work reveals how deeply embedded cultural modes of…    
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Book details

List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Dr Ali Mohammadi is Reader in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-author with Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, of Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication and Culture and The Iranian Revolution (1994). He is also co-editor of Questioning the Media (1994)CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHEREOliver Boyd-Barrett University of LeicesterCees Hamelink University of AmsterdamRalph Negrine University of LeicesterJohn Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University

Acknowledgments
Prolegomenon
Introduction
Media, Modernization, and Mobilization: Theoretical Overview
Mighty Media, Big States, and Modernization: Big identity Crises
Small Media and Revolutionary Change: A New Model
The Political Economy of Media in Iran
Media and the State in Iranian History
Dependent Development and the Rise of Television
The Culture and Weapons of Opposition
Oppositions: Secular and Religious
Cultural Criticism, Secular and Religious
Language, Authority, and Ideology
The "Heavy Artillery": Small Media for a Big Revolution
The Revolutionary Process
A Communication-based Narrative of the Revolution
The Islamic Republic and the Process of Islamicization
A New Cultural Atmosphere
Conclusion: The Importance of the Iran Experience
Notes
Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms
Bibliography
Index