Media and Feminist Protest in Iran: My Camera Is My Weapon [Hardcover]

This book provides an analysis of social media and womens resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regimes gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technologys 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.

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.

Layla May is a researcher and data analyst based in the United States. Her work explores the intersection of technology, media, and human rights

This book provides an analysis of social media and womens resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regimes gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approal#)