Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

by Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845116070
• ISBN13: 9781845116071
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"