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Imagined Cyber Communities, Iranians and the Internet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Haleh Nazeri
Haleh Nazeri*
Affiliation:
New York University
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Extract

The post information age will remove the limitations of geography.

—Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital

The internet has been a continually changing forum for communicating that has been taken up by diaspora communities to maintain connections with their countrymates all over the world. In that capacity, the technology has been an easy and innovative avenue for cultural expression. Iranians, for instance, have established on-line magazines, newsgroups, media and business directories, human rights organizations, student groups, academic organizations and book publishers for a transnational community. Who goes to these sites and why?

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 158 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1996

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8 EDITOR’S NOTE— Dr. Soroush is a leader of Andisheh-i Digar (“Alternative Thought”) which rejects both professional and activist readings of social passages of the Quran in favor of a contemporary hermeneutic that admits scientific rationality and democratic structures and holds the domain of religion to pertain to mysteries and devotions beyond the mundane.