LEADER 03618nam 22006015 450 001 996449444103316 005 20240402013747.0 010 $a0-8135-6194-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813561943 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491185 035 $a(EBL)1578623 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060893 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11719375 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060893 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11098224 035 $a(PQKB)10985547 035 $a(DE-B1597)526504 035 $a(OCoLC)865335237 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813561943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1578623 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491185 100 $a20191221d2013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElectronic Iran $eThe Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution /$fNiki Akhavan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 225 0 $aNew Directions in International Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6193-0 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Nascent Networks --$t1. Reembodied Nationalisms --$t2. Uncharted Blogospheres --$t3. The Movable Image --$t4. Social Media and the Message --$tConclusion: New Media Futures --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aElectronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural production, accounts in media studies that highlight the continuities between old and new media, and a range of works that have made critical interventions in the field of Iranian studies, Niki Akhavan traces key developments and confronts conventional wisdom about digital media in general, and contemporary Iranian culture and politics in particular. Akhavan focuses largely on the years between 1998 and 2012 to reveal a diverse and combative virtual landscape where both geographically and ideologically dispersed individuals and groups deployed Internet technologies to variously construct, defend, and challenge narratives of Iranian national identity, society, and politics. While it tempers celebratory claims that have dominated assessments of the Iranian Internet, Electronic Iran is ultimately optimistic in its outlook. As it exposes and assesses overlooked aspects of the Iranian Internet, the book sketches a more complete map of its dynamic landscape, and suggests that the transformative powers of digital media can only be developed and understood if attention is paid to both the specificities of new technologies as well as the local and transnational contexts in which they appear. 410 0$aNew Directions in International Studies 606 $aOnline social networks$xPolitical aspects$zIran 606 $aInternet and activism$zIran 606 $aMass media and nationalism$zIran 615 0$aOnline social networks$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aInternet and activism 615 0$aMass media and nationalism 676 $a006.7/54 676 $a006.754 700 $aAkhavan$b Niki$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$0802465 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996449444103316 996 $aElectronic Iran$92105933 997 $aUNISA