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By Negar Mottahedeh

The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the area by way of hurricane. because the eco-friendly Revolution received protestors within the Iranian streets, #iranelection turned the 1st long-trending overseas hashtag. Texts, photographs, movies, audio recordings, and hyperlinks hooked up protestors at the flooring and netizens on-line, all at the same time transmitting and dwelling a shared overseas event.
#iranelection follows the protest flow, at the flooring and on-line, to enquire how rising social media structures constructed overseas team spirit. The 2009 protests in Iran have been the 1st revolts to be catapulted onto the worldwide level by means of social media, simply because the 1979 Iranian Revolution was once agitated via cassette tapes. and because the global became to social media structures to appreciate the occasions at the floor, social media structures additionally tailored and built to deal with this worldwide activism. Provocative and eye-opening, #iranelection unearths the recent on-line ecology of social protest and gives a prehistory, of types, of the makes use of of hashtags and trending subject matters, selfies and avatar activism, and citizen journalism and YouTube mashups.

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