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#iranelection : Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life / Negar Mottahedeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mottahedeh, Negar, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--Iran--Election--2009.
- Presidents.
- Social media--Political aspects--Iran.
- Social media.
- Internet and activism--Iran.
- Internet and activism.
- Citizen journalism--Iran.
- Citizen journalism.
- Iran--History--Election protests, 2009.
- Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the world by storm. As the Green Revolution gained protestors in the Iranian streets, #iranelection became the first long-trending international hashtag. Texts, images, videos, audio recordings, and links connected protestors on the ground and netizens online, all simultaneously transmitting and living a shared international experience. #iranelection follows the protest movement, on the ground and online, to investigate how emerging social media platforms developed international solidarity. The 2009 protests in Iran were the first revolts to be catapulted onto the global stage by social media, just as the 1979 Iranian Revolution was agitated by cassette tapes. And as the world turned to social media platforms to understand the events on the ground, social media platforms also adapted and developed to accommodate this global activism. Provocative and eye-opening, #iranelection reveals the new online ecology of social protest and offers a prehistory, of sorts, of the uses of hashtags and trending topics, selfies and avatar activism, and citizen journalism and YouTube mashups.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- @negaratduke #iranelection RT
- I HASHTAG : #CNNfail & the slogans of the 2009 Iranian election crisis
- II MEME : YouTube & the telephone call to the beyond
- III SELFIE : Solidarity & everyday life
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804796736
- 0804796734
- OCLC:
- 1178770113
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