Social Media in Iran

David M. Faris is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Roosevelt University and the author of Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt. Babak Rahimi is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture, and Religion at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran: Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590–1641 CE.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid M. Faris and Babak RahimiPart I. Societal 1. Facebook Iran: Social Capital and the Iranian Social MediaJari Eloranta, Hossein Kermani, and Babak Rahimi2. Gender Roles in the Social Media World of Iranian WomenElham Gheytanchi3. The Role of Social Media in the Lives of Gay IraniansAbouzar Nasirzadeh4. Disabled Iranians on Social Media: Reflections on the Empowering Experiences of the Iranian PWDs in the BlogosphereKobra ElahifarPart II. Politics 5. The Politics of Online Journalism in IranMarcus Michaelsen6. The Persian Blogosphere in DissentArash Falasiri and Nazanin Ghanavizi7. The Politics and Anti-Politics of Facebook in Context of the Iranian 2009 Presidential Elections and BeyondMohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani8. Trans-spatial Public Action: The Geography of Iranian Post-Election Protests in the Age of Web 2.0Reza Masoudi Nejad9. Balatarin: Gatekeepers and the Politics of a Persian Social Media SiteBabak Rahimi and Nima Rassooli10. Architectures of Control and Mobilization in Egypt and IranDavid M. Faris11. Social Media and the Islamic RepublicNiki Akhavan12. Political Memory and Social Media: The Case of NedaSamira RajabiPart III. Culture 13. Iranian Cinema and Social MediaMichelle Langford14. The Online Avant-Garde: Iranian Video Art and Its Technological RebellionStaci Gem ScheiwillerBibliographyContributorsIndex

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