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Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

Sreberny, Annabelle
Khiabany, Gholam

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Iranian Studies

General ComputersGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1845116062
ISBN13: 9781845116064
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 21 2010
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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