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1090260
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bc101087
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English
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| Main Entry
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Sreberny, Annabelle.
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| Title & Author
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Blogistan : : the Internet and politics in Iran /\ Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris ;New York, NY :: Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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International library of Iranian studies ;; v. 18
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1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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9781441681232
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: 144168123X
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: 9780857718211
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: 0857718215
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: 9780857731418
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: 0857731416
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: 6000042299
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: 9786000042295
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9781845116064
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1845116062
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9781845116071
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1845116070
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Internet in Iran: Development and Control; 2. The Politics of and in Blogging; 3. Web of Control and Censorship: State and Blogosphere in Iran; 4. Gender, Sexuality and Blogging; 5. Becoming Intellectual: The Blogistan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic; 6. English Language/Diasporic Blogs: Articulating the Inside and the Outside; 7. Journalism, Blogging and Citizen Journalism; 8. The Summer of 2009; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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The 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? Is it really a new public sphere? Will the Iranian b.
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Blogs-- Political aspects-- Iran.
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Blogs-- Social aspects-- Iran.
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Political participation-- Technological innovations-- Iran.
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Blogues-- Aspect politique-- Iran.
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Blogues-- Aspect social-- Iran.
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Participation politique-- Innovations-- Iran.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Media Studies.
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Political participation-- Technological innovations.
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Politics and government.
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Weblog-- Iran.
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Weblog-- Politik-- Iran.
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Politik-- Weblog-- Iran.
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Internet-- Politische Partizipation-- Iran.
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Politische Partizipation-- Internet-- Iran.
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Iran, Politics and government, 1997-
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Iran, Politique et gouvernement, 1997-
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.2310955
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DS318.83.S64 2010eb
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Khiabany, Gholam.
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