03030cam a22004217a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009701500190011402000180013302000150015103500240016604000750019004100080026504200140027304300120028705000240029908200160032310000360033924500940037526001260046930000470059549000540064250001930069650400660088952013110095565000620226665000620232865000360239065000410242665000330246765000380250070000220253883000480256016619368BJBSDDR20230805181421.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta100714s2010    enka     b    001 0 eng d  a  2011379131  aGBA9B39762bnb  a9781845116071  a1845116070  a(OCoLC)ocn668394201  aEQOcEQOdBWKdCDXdYDXCPdBWXdUABdUV0dCUSdCODdMUUdUPPdDLCbeng  aeng  alccopycat  aa-ir---14aJQ 1789bS774b 201000a302.23109551 aSreberny, Annabelle,d1949-202210aBlogistan :bthe internet and politics in Iran /cAnnabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany.  aLondon ;aNew York :bI. B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,c2010.  axiii, 211 pages :billustrations ;c22 cm.1 aInternational library of Iranian studies ;vv. 18  aIn this work, the authors give a flavour of contemporary Internet culture in Iran, and analyse how this new form of communication is affecting the social and political life of the country.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index.  aThe protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has struggled to grasp what this new phenomenon actually means. How is it different from print culture[unk] Is it really a new public sphere[unk] Will the Iranian blogosphere create a culture of dissidence, which eventually overpowers the Islamist regime[unk] In this groundbreaking work, the authors give a flavour of contemporary internet culture in Iran and analyse how this new form of communication is affecting the social and political life of the country. Although they warn against stereotyping bloggers as dissidents, they argue that the internet is changing things in ways which neither the government nor the democracy movement could have anticipated.
"Blogistan" offers both a new reading of Iranian politics and a new conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China and beyond. 0aPolitical participationxTechnological innovationszIran. 4aParticipación política xInnovaciones tecnológicas  0aBlogsxPolitical aspectszIran. 4aBlogs xAspectos políticoszIrán 0aBlogsxSocial aspectszIran. 4aBlogs xAspectos socialeszIrán1 aKhiabany, Gholam. 0aInternational library of Iranian studies ;