Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran pdf
Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran pdf
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Author: Gholam Khiabany
Page Count: 232 pages
Published Date: 21 Dec 2010
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781845116064
File size: 28 Mb
File Name: Blogistan.The.Internet.and.Politics.in.Iran.pdf
Download Link: Blogistan The Internet and Politics in Iran
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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 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 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.
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Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran by Gholam Khiabany
Author: Gholam Khiabany
Page Count: 232 pages
Published Date: 21 Dec 2010
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781845116064
File size: 28 Mb
File Name: Blogistan.The.Internet.and.Politics.in.Iran.pdf
Download Link: Blogistan The Internet and Politics in Iran
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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 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 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.
Read online Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran Buy and read online Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran Download and read Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Blogistan : The Internet and Politics in Iran ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent