Internet and the State: The Rise of Cyberdemocracy in Revolutionary Iran

http://nmit.georgetown.edu/papers/rahimib.htm

2003

Babak Rahimi

It was not long ago, in the not so long history of information and communication technology (ICTs), that the Internet was hailed as an emerging new democratic medium to undermine authoritarian regimes. Whether considering the increase in competence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on a global scale or the effect of information on local politics, cyberspace, understood as a digitally constituted means of communication, provided an exciting new frontier where political power manifested itself in a radical democratic way.

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