Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age

Yahya R. Kamalipour is professor of mass and international communication, head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, and Director of Center for Global Studies, Purdue University in Indiana.

The events surrounding the disputed reelection of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad captured the imagination of the world and launched a global revolution in the way that information is captured and shared by the media. This is the first attempt to analyze what went wrong and what went right in the media's coverage of those events. It is a much-needed contribution to an issue, and a country, that will remain on everyone's radar for years to come.

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