Blogistan The Internet and Politics in Iran

Name: Blogistan The Internet and Politics in Iran
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ISBN: 9781845116071

ISBN-10: 1845116070

ISBN-13: 9781845116071

Edition: 2010

Authors: Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany

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The Islamic Republic of Iran - of all places - has become a hub of cyber activity. It has an estimated 700,000 bloggers. The Internet is celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, where censorship is prevalent, but most literature on the subject has struggled to grasp what this new phenomenon actually means. In what ways does the Internet function differently to print culture? Are we seeing the construction of a new kind of public sphere? Will the Iranian blogosphere create a culture of dissidence, which eventually overpowers the Islamist regime? In this groundbreaking work, the authors give a flavour of contemporary Internet culture in Iran, and analyse how this new…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 10/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.57" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



The Internet in Iran: Development and Control



The Politics of and in Blogging



Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran



Gender, Sexuality and Blogging



Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic



English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside



Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism



The Summer of 2009


Notes


Bibliography


Index