LEADER 02731nam 22003853a 450 001 9910842254103321 005 20240405175045.0 035 $a(CKB)30954232200041 035 $a(OCoLC)865335237 035 $a(ScCtBLL)311e760c-7d26-4f3a-9567-e697e8581227 035 $a(Perlego)2330424 035 $a(oapen)doab33687 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930954232200041 100 $a20240102i20132017 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aElectronic Iran $eThe Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution /$fNiki Akhavan 210 $aNew Brunswick$cRutgers University Press$d2013 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (158 pages) 311 08$a9780813561929 311 08$a0813561922 330 $aElectronic 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 606 $aPolitical science 615 0$aPolitical science. 700 $aAkhavan$b Niki$f1975-$0802465 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910842254103321 996 $aElectronic Iran$92105933 997 $aUNINA