Cyberspace, Ta’ziyeh symbols and the public sphere in Iran

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dc.contributor.authorSharifi Isaloo, Amin
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-09T11:34:36Z
dc.date.available2019-09-09T11:34:36Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2019-09-08T16:49:15Z
dc.description.abstractThe instruments of publicity and public engagement in the social, economic and political arenas are growing in power due to the development of communication technology and electronic media. At the same time, their capacity to play a manipulative role in forming the public sphere is disregarded. Drawing on Victor Turner’s emphasis on the importance of symbols and his analyses of liminality, this article focuses on a liminal period in the recent history of Iran, namely the 2009 Green Movement, when a ritual performance such as Ta’ziyeh and its symbols played key roles in mobilising crowds and forming the public sphere. In this way, it demonstrates how, under such liminal conditions, trickster figures can employ cultural and religious symbols in the medium of cyberspace, social media and social networks to become influential in manipulating the public.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationSharifi Isaloo, A. (2016) 'Cyberspace, Ta’ziyeh symbols and the Public Sphere in Iran', International Political Anthropology, 9(1), pp. 37-56.en
dc.identifier.endpage56en
dc.identifier.issn2283-9887
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Political Anthropologyen
dc.identifier.startpage37en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8475
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInternational Political Anthropologyen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.politicalanthropology.org/ipa-journal/9-ipa-journal/112-ipa-journal-numbers-2016
dc.rights© 2016 IPA Journalen
dc.subjectPublic sphereen
dc.subjectLiminalityen
dc.subjectSymbolsen
dc.subjectRitualen
dc.subjectCyberspaceen
dc.subjectTa’ziyehen
dc.subjectGreen Movementen
dc.subjectIranen
dc.titleCyberspace, Ta’ziyeh symbols and the public sphere in Iranen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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