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Twitter activism in Iransocial media and democracy in authoritarian regimes /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Twitter activism in Iranby Hossein Kermani.
Reminder of title:	social media and democracy in authoritarian regimes /
Author:	Kermani, Hossein.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xx, 184 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Politics in social media.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81538-6
ISBN:	9783031815386$q(electronic bk.)

Twitter activism in Iransocial media and democracy in authoritarian regimes /
Kermani, Hossein.

Twitter activism in Iransocial media and democracy in authoritarian regimes /[electronic resource] :by Hossein Kermani. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xx, 184 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Introduction: Politics and Twitter in post-Twitter era. -- Towards a theoretical understanding of social media and politics. -- Internet, Social Media, and Politics in Iran. -- Persian Twitter in 2017 presidential election: Networked publics and struggling on power. -- The battle between Bots vs. humans: Persian Twitter in Covid-19. -- False information and incivility during the #MahsaAmini movement. -- Final remarks and the complexity of Persian Twitter.

This book investigates Twitter activism in authoritarian regimes, with particular attention to Iran. Twitter provides citizens around the globe with a free and quick way to engage in politics and public discourses. The role of Twitter, alongside other social media, is even more critical in authoritarian regimes where official media is systematically monitored and censured. Thus, social media is vital in restrictive (non-democratic) societies for people to seek their liberty, raise their voice, and create counter-narratives and discourses. There is substantial research into Twitter and democracy, both in democratic and non-democratic regimes. However, Iran, as a country with a high population of tech-savvy users who actively participate in political discussions online, remains understudied to a great extent. Twitter in Iran has been blocked since the 2009 presidential election and its subsequent protests, the Green Movement. Nevertheless, Iranians have been continually using it to date.Recently, another significant hashtag movement unfolded in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini. But it is only an instance of how Iranians employ Twitter to fight a dictatorship. Given the unique context of Iran as a non-democratic society with a high number of Twitter users, this book tries to explore how Iranian users participate in politics, challenge the regime, mobilize their protests, and shape anti-regime discourses. It also examines the strategies that the Iranian regime takes to dismantle Twitter activism. Therefore, this work will fill some gaps in the existing literature on Twitter and democracy, which is relatively Western-centered. Hossein Kermani is a senior researcher at the Political Communication Research Group of the University of Vienna, Austria.

ISBN: 9783031815386$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-81538-6doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

936266
Twitter (Firm)
Subjects--Topical Terms:

987930
Politics in social media.

LC Class. No.: PN4565.P65

Dewey Class. No.: 302.2310955

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