03618nam 22006015 450 99644944410331620240402013747.00-8135-6194-910.36019/9780813561943(CKB)2670000000491185(EBL)1578623(SSID)ssj0001060893(PQKBManifestationID)11719375(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060893(PQKBWorkID)11098224(PQKB)10985547(DE-B1597)526504(OCoLC)865335237(DE-B1597)9780813561943(MiAaPQ)EBC1578623(EXLCZ)99267000000049118520191221d2013 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrElectronic Iran The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution /Niki Akhavan1st ed.New Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (160 p.)New Directions in International StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-6193-0 Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Nascent Networks --1. Reembodied Nationalisms --2. Uncharted Blogospheres --3. The Movable Image --4. Social Media and the Message --Conclusion: New Media Futures --Notes --Works Cited --IndexElectronic 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.New Directions in International StudiesOnline social networksPolitical aspectsIranInternet and activismIranMass media and nationalismIranOnline social networksPolitical aspectsInternet and activismMass media and nationalism006.7/54006.754Akhavan Nikiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.802465DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996449444103316Electronic Iran2105933UNISA