In this Book
- Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: New Directions in International Studies
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summary
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural production, accounts in media studies that highlight the continuities between old and new media, and a range of works that have made critical interventions in the field of Iranian studies, Niki Akhavan traces key developments and confronts conventional wisdom about digital media in general, and contemporary Iranian culture and politics in particular. Akhavan focuses largely on the years between 1998 and 2012 to reveal a diverse and combative virtual landscape where both geographically and ideologically dispersed individuals and groups deployed Internet technologies to variously construct, defend, and challenge narratives of Iranian national identity, society, and politics.l
Table of Contents

- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction: Nascent Networks
- pp. 1-12
- 1. Reembodied Nationalisms
- pp. 13-34
- 2. Uncharted Blogospheres
- pp. 35-58
- 3. The Movable Image
- pp. 59-82
- 4. Social Media and the Message
- pp. 83-106
- Conclusion: New Media Futures
- pp. 107-112
- Works Cited
- pp. 133-140
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813561943
Related ISBN(s)
9780813561929
MARC Record
OCLC
1103485616
Pages
168
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-02
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND