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Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution

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Description for Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution Paperback. .

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in International Studies (Paperback)
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813561929
SKU
V9780813561929
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About Niki Akhavan
NIKI AKHAVAN is an assistant professor of media studies at the Catholic University of America.

Reviews for Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
"Using a highly original and unique approach, Akhavan charts unknown territories in the vast Iranian blogosphere ranging from state to dissident voices."
Negar Mottahedeh
author of Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
"A fascinating account of a key geopolitical media event of the 21st century: the struggle to define, contest and control the Iran Internet."
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