Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution

by Niki Akhavan

Book Overview

Electronic 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813561922
• ISBN13: 9780813561929
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary