Social Media in Iran : Politics and Society After 2009.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social Media and Networked (Counter)publics -- Outline of the Volume -- Notes -- Part I. Societal -- 1. Facebook Iran: Social Capital and the Iranian Social Media -- Conceptualizing Social Capital -- Social Capital of Social Networks in Iran (Offline) -- Social Network Sites in the Iranian Cyberspace -- Social Capital and Iranians on Facebook -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Gender Roles in the Social Media World of Iranian Women -- Methodology -- A Note about Nonusers of Facebook in the Context of Iranian Politics -- Motherhood and the Women's Movement in Islamic Iran -- Feminist Take on IT and FB -- Ethnographic Research: Motherhood and Activism in Iran -- Social and Political Activism by Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. The Role of Social Media in the Lives of Gay Iranians -- Research Methodology -- Iran and the Emergence of the Nascent Modern Gay Community -- Internet and the History of Gay Online Activity in Iran -- Typology of Gay Iranian Internet Users -- In Search of "BF" Online: Friendship, Dating, and Hook-ups -- Conscription, HIV/AIDS, Immigration: Social Media as a Source of Subversive Information -- The Virtual Coming Out: Cultural and Political Activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Disabled Iranians on Social Media: Reflections on the Empowering Experiences of the Iranian PWDs in the Blogosphere -- Social Inclusion and ICT Use in Everyday Life -- PWDs' Blogging Practices and Social Networking -- People with Disabilities: Individual and Societal Empowerment in Cyberspace -- Method of Study -- In the Name of Community Outreach: "We Have a Share in Being Isolated!" -- After All, She Didn't Like "to Only Reach Disabled Readers": Writing Disability and Blending In -- Relationship Expansion and Real-World Outings: Equity and Gendered Disability Talk.

Relationship Depth and Reciprocity in the Online World: "A Feeling Quite Different . . ." -- Individual Empowerment -- Social Empowerment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. Politics -- 5. The Politics of Online Journalism in Iran -- Media and Political Contests -- Emerging Online Media -- Voices from Outside -- Reform Activism Online -- Debating in the Blogosphere -- Principalist Online Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Persian Blogosphere in Dissent -- Internet as Public Sphere -- The Blogosphere -- Notes -- 7. The Politics and Anti-Politics of Facebook in Context of the Iranian 2009 Presidential Elections and Beyond -- Technology and Politics in Literature -- Social Media Technology, Social Capital, and Social Networks -- Collective Action, Collective Identity, and New Social Movements -- Observations -- Every Citizen Is a Campaign Headquarters: Decentralization and the Power of Social Media for Mousavi's Campaign -- Each Iranian Is a Medium: The Iranian Green Movement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Trans-spatial Public Action: The Geography of Iranian Post-Election Protests in the Age of Web 2.0 -- Diaspora in the Age of Globalization -- New Communication Technology and Protest -- Experiencing a Trans-spatial Protest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Balatarin: Gatekeepers and the Politics of a Persian Social Media Site -- Landscape of the Persian Language Social Media -- The Case of Balatarin -- The Beginnings (2006-2007): Utopian Hopes -- The Realities (2007): Realizing the Limits -- The Maelstrom (2009-Present): Site Goes Green -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. Architectures of Control and Mobilization in Egypt and Iran -- Authoritarian Regimes and the Internet -- Egypt -- Iran -- Bringing Authoritarianism Back In -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Social Media and the Islamic Republic -- Social Media as Sites of Moral and Criminal Transgression.

Producing New Spaces and Engaging Popular Platforms -- "Enemy" Terrains -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12. Political Memory and Social Media: The Case of Neda -- Postelection Protest in Iran: The First Real Digital Martyr of Our Time -- Collective Memory: Creating Political Memories Online, and Remediation as Commemoration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III. Culture -- 13. Iranian Cinema and Social Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14. The Online Avant-Garde: Iranian Video Art and Its Technological Rebellion -- Iranian Video Art: A Long(er) History and a Technological Rebirth -- Parallel Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.

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