Small media, big revolution : communication, culture, and the Iranian revolution
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Small media, big revolution : communication, culture, and the Iranian revolution
University of Minnesota Press, c1994
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Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780816622160
Description
To most Westerners, the Iranian revolution was a shocking spectacle, a distant mass upheaval suddenly breaking into the daily news. It was, in fact, a revolution of the television era, as this book clearly demonstrates. The first account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian revolution, this is also the first book to consider revolution as communication in the modern world. Co-authored by participants in the revolutionary upheaval, this study reflects an unusual breadth and depth of perspective. Drawing on 10 years of research, the authors show how the processes and products of modernization actually helped to undermine the very foundation of modernity in Iran. Their work reveals how deeply embedded cultural modes of communication, coupled with crucial media technologies, were able to mobilize a population within a repressive political context. Tracing the use of small media (audio and video cassettes) to disseminate the revolution, the authors challenge much of the theory that has dominated international communication studies - and in doing so, question the credibility of the established media.
This book also examines the dilemmas of cultural policy-making based on Islamic principles in a media-saturated domestic and international environment.
Table of Contents
- Media, modernization and mobilization: theoretical overviews
- big media, big states and modernization
- small media and revolutionary change - a new model
- the political economy of media in Iran
- media and the state in Iranian history
- dependent development and the rise of television
- the culture and weapons of opposition
- Oppositions - secular and religious
- cultural criticism, both secular and religious
- language, ideology and authority
- the revolutionary process
- the "heavy artillery": small media for a big revolution
- revolt and revolution - a communications-based narrative
- the Islamic Republic, the process of Islamisation Cultural policy under the Islamic Republic
- a new cultural atmosphere
- the importance of the Iran experience.
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780816622177
Description
To most Westerners, the Iranian revolution was a shocking spectacle, a distant mass upheaval suddenly breaking into the daily news. It was, in fact, a revolution of the television era, as this book demonstrates. This account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian revolution also considers revolution as communication in the modern world. Co-authored by participants in the revolutionary upheaval, this study reflects a wide perspective. Drawing on ten years of research, the authors vividly show how the processes and products of modernization actually helped to undermine the very foundation of modernity in Iran. Their work reveals how deeply embedded cultural modes of communication coupled with crucial media technologies were able to mobilize a population within a repressive political context. Tracing the use of small media (audio and video cassettes) to disseminate the revolution, the authors challenge much of the theory that has dominated international communication studies and, in doing so, question the credibility of the established media.
Their book also examines the dilemmas of cultural policymaking based on Islamic principles in a media-saturated domestic and international environment. Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi are co-editors of "Questioning the Media".
Table of Contents
- Media, modernization and mobilization - theoretical overviews
- big media, big states and modernization
- small media and revolutionary change - a new model
- the political economy of media in Iran
- media and the state in Iranian history
- dependent development and the rise of television
- the culture and weapons of opposition
- oppositions - secular and religious
- cultural criticism, both secular and religious
- language, ideology and authority
- the revolutionary process
- the "heavy artillery" - small media for a big revolution
- revolt and revolution - a communications-based narrative
- the Islamic Republic, the process of Islamization cultural policy under the Islamic Republic
- a new cultural atmosphere
- the importance of the Iran experience.
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