Media and Feminist Protest in Iran: My Camera Is My Weapon
by: Layla May (Author)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 26 Jan. 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 303144860X
ISBN-13: 9783031448607
Book Description
This book provides an analysis of social media and women’s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology’s 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.
About the Author
From the Back Cover This book provides an analysis of social media and women’s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology’s 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.Layla May is a researcher and data analyst based in the United States. Her work explores the intersection of technology, media, and human rights
About the Author Layla May is a researcher and data analyst based in the United States. Her work explores the intersection of technology, media, and human rights
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