Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity

by Khiabany, Gholam

• ISBN13: 9780203876411
• ISBN10: 0203876415
• Copyright: 2009-08-06
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book provides an overview of the expansion of the Iranian communication system, examining the political economy of this process and arguing that the nature of Iranian media in general and the press in particular, cannot be understood simply in terms of "Islamic ideology" or the false dichotomy of "modernity" versus "tradition."

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Religion, State and Culture: Beyond Islamic Exceptionalism

Is there an Islamic Communication Theory?

Iranian Press: The Paradox of 'Modernity'

Emerging Public Spheres and the Limits of the Press

Press, State and Civil Society: Illusions and Realities

Media Policy under the Islamic Republic: Rights, Institutional Interests and Control

The Politics of Broadcasting: Continuity and Change, Expansion and Control

Women's Press and Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.