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2010.
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1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages) :
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illustrations
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International library of Iranian studies ;
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v. 18
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Internet in Iran: Development and Control; 2. The Politics of and in Blogging; 3. Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran; 4. Gender, Sexuality and Blogging; 5. Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic; 6. English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside; 7. Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism; 8. The Summer of 2009; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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? Is it really a new public sphere? Will the Iranian b.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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MIL
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OverDrive, Inc.
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293189
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6A7B347C-5B01-47D4-9B03-A9B0B8FD8B41
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9786612931895
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Blogs-- Political aspects-- Iran.
Blogs-- Social aspects-- Iran.
Political participation-- Technological innovations-- Iran.
Blogues-- Aspect politique-- Iran.
Blogues-- Aspect social-- Iran.
Participation politique-- Innovations-- Iran.
Internet-- Politische Partizipation-- Iran.
Political participation-- Technological innovations.