Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age (eBook)

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 PART I: GLOBAL MEDIA DIMENSIONS
Chapter 4 The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election in the Coverage ofCNN and Al-Jazeera English Websites
Chapter 5 The Canadian Media-Framing of the 2009 IranianPresidential Election
Chapter 6 The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election in the Polish Media
Chapter 7 Newspaper Coverage of the 2009 Iranian PresidentialElection in Turkey
Chapter 8 A Comparative Analysis of the Egyptian and IranianPresidential Elections Media Coverage
Chapter 9 The Presidential Election in Iran 2009: Pre- and PostelectionNews Coverage in the German Press
Chapter 10 How the Mass Media Defined Iran's Destiny: An GeneralOverview of the Role of Media Outlets in Iran's June 2009Presidential Election
Chapter 11 Televised Presidential Election Debates: A Brief ComparativeAnalysis of the American and Iranian Debates
Part 12 PART II: NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKINGDIMENSIONS
Chapter 13 What's That Chirping I Hear? The CNN Effect to the Twitter Effect
Chapter 14 Bullets with Butterfly Wings: Tweets, Protest Networks, and the Iranian Election
Chapter 15 Graphic Content: The Semiotics of a YouTube Uprising
Chapter 16 The Role and Impact of New Information Technology (NIT)Applications in Disseminating News about the Recent Iran Presidential Election and Uprisings
Chapter 17 The Role of E-diplomacy in Iranian and Xinjiang Riots
Part 18 PART III: IDEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL DIMENSIONS
Chapter 19 Khameni's Group against Khomeini Followers
Chapter 20 Silencing Iran's Twitterati: How U.S. Sanctions Muzzle Iran's Online Opposition
Chapter 21 Legal Opinion as Political Action: The Significance of Ayatollah Montazeri's Postelection Fatwa in Delegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran
Chapter 22 Televising the "Velvet Revolution": Show Trials in the Aftermath of Iran's Tenth Presidential Election
Chapter 23 The Ramadan Controversy: Dilemmas in Mediating between Cultures through the Study of Dutch and Iranian Media Discourses in the Post-Iranian Uprising
Part 24 PART IV: CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION DIMENSIONS
Chapter 25 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, More Powerful Than a Locomotive: Mutual Instrumentalization of Culture, Cinema, and Media by Iran and the United States
Chapter 26 Social Networking Media and the Revolution That Wasn't:A Realistic Assessment of the Revolutionary Situation in Iran
Chapter 27 Are We Neda? The Iranian Women, the Election, and International Media
Chapter 28 Symbols, Signs, and Slogans of the Demonstrations in Iran
Chapter 29 Friend or Foe? The Challenges and Tribulations of Iranian Reporters Working for Western Media
Chapter 30 The Nondiminishing Role of Traditional Media in theCoverage of the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election:The New York Times versus the New Media