Media and Feminist Protest in Iran: My Camera Is My Weapon

ISBN-13: 9783031448607 / Angielski

Layla May

Spis treści

1. Gender, Protest and Precarity in the Digital Era – Media and Resistance in Authoritarian Contents.- 2. Digitalized Action Repertoires – Cultural Production as Protest.- 3. Mapping the Farsi Twittersphere -  Tracing, Mapping and Archiving Transnational Connections.- 4. Sex, Drugs and Control -  Corruption in Contemporary Iran.- 5. Publishers to Platforms – Social Media as Data.

O autorze

Layla M. Hashemi is Researcher and Data Analyst at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, USA, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Civil Society.

Blurb

This book provides an analysis of social media and women’s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology’s role in politics and society and an in-depth analysis of authoritarianism and its relationship to social media harms and state violence. With a particular focus on images, hashtags, and other digital content, it calls for a rethinking of the concepts of crime, culture, and control in the technosocial world. The author draws on conceptual contributions from the fields of criminology, philosophy, psychology, technology and media studies.

Layla May is Researcher and Data Analyst at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, USA, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Civil Society.