Living with globalization and the Islamic state: an introduction to media, culture, and society in Iran / Mehdi Semati, 1
I. NEW AND OLD MEDIA IN IRAN
1 The Iranian press, state, and civil society / Gholam Khiabany, 17
2 The politics of the Internet in Iran / Babak Rahimi, 37
3 Youth, politics, and media habits in Iran / Kavous Seyed-Emami, 57
4 The language of rock: Iranian youth, popular music, and national identity / Laudan Nooshin, 69
5 The politics of satellite television in Iran / Fardin Alikhah, 94
6 The Iranian moral panic over video: a brief history and a policy analysis / Mahmood Shahabi, 111
7 Sociolinguistic aspects of Persian advertising in post-revolutionary Iran / Mohammad Amouzadeh, Manoochehr Tavangar, 130
8 Trends in contemporary Persian poetry / Alireza Anushiravani, Kavoous Hassanli, 152
9 Iranian émigré cinema as a component of Iranian national cinema / Hamid Naficy, 167
10 Iranian cinema and the critique of absolutism / Zohreh T. Sullivan, 193
II. RELIGION, STATE AND CULTURE
11 Fundamentalism, gender, and the discourses of veiling (Hijab) in contemporary Iran / Fatemeh Sadeghi, 207
12 Religious intellectualism, globalization, and social transformation in Iran / Abbas Varij Kazemi, 223
13 Secularization in the Iranian society / Yousef Ali Abazari, Abbas Varij Kazemi, Mehdi Faraji, 238
III. EPILOGUE
14 Epilogue: Whither Iran? / Majid Tehranian, 257