Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age

The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran

By (author) Yahya R. Kamalipour Contributions by Jonathan M. Acuff, Sareh Afshar, Banu Akdenizli, Rasha Allam, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Payal Arora, Aliaa Dakroury, Patrick Disney, Mahmoud Eid, David J. Elliott, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Ali Fisher, Elham Gheytanchi, Mahboub E. Hashem, Christine Horz, Negin Hosseini, Wang Jing, Michele Bach Malek, Hamid Naficy, Abeer Najjar, Madhav D. Nalapat, Ashok Panikkar, Trita Parsi, Tomasz Pludowski, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Setareh Sabety, Ahmad Sadri Lake Forest College, Mahmoud Sadri, Nancy Snow, Li Xiguang Tsinghua University, Kourosh Ziabari

Publication date:

16 November 2010

Length of book:

340 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

239x163mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781442204157

Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of "small digital media" vis-à-vis the elections and global media coverage. Written in a non-technical, easy to read, and accessible manner, the volume will appeal to scholars, students, policy makers and print professionals alike.

To provide a global overview of media coverage and diverse perspectives on the controversial 2009 presidential election, this book consists of 24 original essays, covering issues from global media coverage to new media-social networking, from the ideological-political dimensions to the cultural facets of the elections. Organized in a cohesive manner, the writing styles and presentation remain varied and richly informative.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 PART I: GLOBAL MEDIA DIMENSIONS
Chapter 4 The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election in the Coverage ofCNN and Al-Jazeera English Websites
Chapter 5 The Canadian Media-Framing of the 2009 IranianPresidential Election
Chapter 6 The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election in the Polish Media
Chapter 7 Newspaper Coverage of the 2009 Iranian PresidentialElection in Turkey
Chapter 8 A Comparative Analysis of the Egyptian and IranianPresidential Elections Media Coverage
Chapter 9 The Presidential Election in Iran 2009: Pre- and PostelectionNews Coverage in the German Press
Chapter 10 How the Mass Media Defined Iran's Destiny: An GeneralOverview of the Role of Media Outlets in Iran's June 2009Presidential Election
Chapter 11 Televised Presidential Election Debates: A Brief ComparativeAnalysis of the American and Iranian Debates
Part 12 PART II: NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKINGDIMENSIONS
Chapter 13 What's That Chirping I Hear? The CNN Effect to the Twitter Effect
Chapter 14 Bullets with Butterfly Wings: Tweets, Protest Networks, and the Iranian Election
Chapter 15 Graphic Content: The Semiotics of a YouTube Uprising
Chapter 16 The Role and Impact of New Information Technology (NIT)Applications in Disseminating News about the Recent Iran Presidential Election and Uprisings
Chapter 17 The Role of E-diplomacy in Iranian and Xinjiang Riots
Part 18 PART III: IDEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL DIMENSIONS
Chapter 19 Khameni's Group against Khomeini Followers
Chapter 20 Silencing Iran's Twitterati: How U.S. Sanctions Muzzle Iran's Online Opposition
Chapter 21 Legal Opinion as Political Action: The Significance of Ayatollah Montazeri's Postelection Fatwa in Delegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran
Chapter 22 Televising the "Velvet Revolution": Show Trials in the Aftermath of Iran's Tenth Presidential Election
Chapter 23 The Ramadan Controversy: Dilemmas in Mediating between Cultures through the Study of Dutch and Iranian Media Discourses in the Post-Iranian Uprising
Part 24 PART IV: CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION DIMENSIONS
Chapter 25 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, More Powerful Than a Locomotive: Mutual Instrumentalization of Culture, Cinema, and Media by Iran and the United States
Chapter 26 Social Networking Media and the Revolution That Wasn't:A Realistic Assessment of the Revolutionary Situation in Iran
Chapter 27 Are We Neda? The Iranian Women, the Election, and International Media
Chapter 28 Symbols, Signs, and Slogans of the Demonstrations in Iran
Chapter 29 Friend or Foe? The Challenges and Tribulations of Iranian Reporters Working for Western Media
Chapter 30 The Nondiminishing Role of Traditional Media in theCoverage of the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election:The New York Times versus the New Media

The events surrounding the disputed reelection of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad captured the imagination of the world and launched a global revolution in the way that information is captured and shared by the media. This is the first attempt to analyze what went wrong and what went right in the media's coverage of those events. It is a much-needed contribution to an issue, and a country, that will remain on everyone's radar for years to come.