Description: Media, modernization and mobilization - theoretical overviews; big media, big states and modernization; small media and revolutionary change - a new model; the political economy of media in Iran; media and the state in Iranian history; dependent development and the rise of television; the culture and weapons of opposition; oppositions - secular and religious; cultural criticism, both secular and religious; language, ideology and authority; the revolutionary process; the "heavy artillery" - small media for a big revolution; revolt and revolution - a communications-based narrative; the Islamic Republic, the process of Islamization cultural policy under the Islamic Republic; a new cultural atmosphere; the importance of the Iran experience.

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