I would like to thank all the Web site administrators, bloggers, journalists, human rights activists, and vii I owe a great debt of gratitude to numerous participants on the Iranian Internet who have shared their knowledge and experiences with me in informal spaces online and off. I wish to thank Roksana Bahramitash, Alireza Doostdar, Suzanne Gauch, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Eric Hooglund, Amy Kallander, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Pedram Khosronejad, Hossein Khosrowjah, Mana Kia, Targol Mesbah, Minoo Moallem, Shadi Mokhtari, Babak Rahimi, Najat Rahman, Sima Shakhsari, Ted Swedenburg, and Will Youmans. Throughout the years when this book was in progress, many friends, colleagues, and mentors whose scholarship focuses on Iran or the Middle East more broadly have provided moral and intellectual support and encouraged me to carry on with my research in the face of numerous political pressures. These are not easy times to speak or write about Iran. I owe special thanks to James Clifford, Barbara Epstein, and Neferti Tadiar. I was honored to have extraordinary teachers and colleagues in Santa Cruz who continue to amaze me with all that they achieve. If it were not for the University of California at Santa Cruz’s History of Consciousness Program and their openness to interdisciplinary projects from off the beaten track, I likely would not have been able to do the work that was necessary to lay the foundation for this book. When I first became interested in digital media and transnational Iranian political culture as an aspiring graduate student, neither Iran nor the Internet were the hot topics they have since become. Introduction: Nascent Networks 1 Reembodied NationalismsĢ Uncharted Blogospheres 35 3 The Movable ImageĤ Social Media and the Message Conclusion: New Media Futures Notes 113 Works Cited Index 141 Visit our website: Manufactured in the United States of America The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S.
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