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. This title offers both a reading of Iranian politics and a conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China and beyond.
Annabelle Sreberny is Professor of Global Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS, University of London. Gholam Khiabany is Reader in International Communications in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University.
'Judicious, informed, sympathetic... announces a whole new generation of scholarship in the field' - Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University; 'A remarkable study' - Toby Miller, University of California Riverside; 'Essential reading' - Faye Ginsburg, Director, Centre of Media, Culture and History, New York University
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