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This account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian revolution also considers revolution as communication in the modern world. It reveals how cultural modes of communication coupled with media technologies were able to mobilize a population within a repressive political context.

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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.

Small Media Big Revolution Communication Culture

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    A Paperback / softback by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Ali Mohammadi

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/08/1994
      ISBN13: 9780816622177, 978-0816622177
      ISBN10: 0816622175

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian revolution also considers revolution as communication in the modern world. It reveals how cultural modes of communication coupled with media technologies were able to mobilize a population within a repressive political context.

      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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