Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution - Hardcover

Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi; Ali Mohammadi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816622167 ISBN 13: 9780816622160

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Sreberny-Mohammadi, Annabelle

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Professors of communications in England, the authors (Questioning the Media, Sage Pub., 1990) argue that the Iranian Revolution presented a new Third World revolutionary model that was populist, urban, and based on small media. They propose that the leaflets and audiocassettes were essential because they provided a political public space not available elsewhere under the repressive regime. Though focusing primarily on small media-defined as public and participatory, controlled neither by the state nor by a large corporation-the authors also discuss the influence of TV, newspaper's, rumor, etc. By examining the uses of all media, they show how the society's fear of cultural and economic dependency was evident on both sides of the conflict, though in crucially different modes. They do not miss the ironic role played by Western technology in an adamantly anti-West and antimodernization revolution. Somewhat scholarly, this thorough examination of communications in a time of conflict by a couple who lived through it is recommended for academic collections.
Marianne Cawley, Enoch Pratt Free Lib., Baltimore
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816622167
• ISBN 13: 9780816622160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256