Media and Feminist Protest in Iran

This bookprovides an analysis of social media and women's resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines howIranian women continue to fight against the regime's gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces.The book presentsa critical approach to technology's role in politics and society and an in-depth analysis of authoritarianism and its relationship to social media harms and state violence. With a particularfocus on images, hashtags, and other digital content, it calls for a rethinking of the concepts of crime, culture, and control in the technosocial world. The author draws onconceptual contributions from the fields of criminology, philosophy, psychology, technology and media studies.