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  title info:
    title: Electronic Iran
    sub title: the cultural politics of an online evolution
  name:
    name part: Akhavan, Niki
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 149 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: 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. While it tempers celebratory claims that have dominated assessments of the Iranian Internet, Electronic Iran is ultimately optimistic in its outlook. As it exposes and assesses overlooked aspects of the Iranian Internet, the book sketches a more complete map of its dynamic landscape, and suggests that the transformative powers of digital media can only be developed and understood if attention is paid to both the specificities of new technologies as well as the local and transnational contexts in which they appear.
  table of contents: Introduction: nascent networks -- Reembodied nationalisms -- Uncharted blogospheres -- The movable image -- Social media and the message -- Conclusion: new media futures.
  note: Niki Akhavan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    topic: Online social networks
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Internet and activism
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Mass media and nationalism
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Internet
  subject:
    topic: Neue Medien
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
  classification: HM742 .A4294 2013eb
  classification: 006.7/54 006.754
  classification: AP 19664
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    title info:
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    name:
      name part: Akhavan, Niki, 1975-
    origin info:
      publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
    identifier: (DLC) 2012051442
    identifier: (OCoLC)825399691
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  identifier: 0813561949
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  identifier: 22573/ctt59jkrx JSTOR
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 131214
    record change date: 20260728172454.0
    record identifier: in00003912730
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng