[ecrea] New Publication: Digital Art, Political Aesthetic, and Social Media: Case Study of the Iranian Presidential Election of 2009

The International Journal of Communication has published a new special section (7, 2013) on "Digital Art, Political Aesthetic, and Social Media: Case Study of the Iranian Presidential Election of 2009"
Guest editor, Dr. Pedram Khosronejad (Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews)

http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/9

The Iranian presidential election of 2009 and its tumultuous aftermath was an important starting point for a new wave of visual artists and their artwork in Iran and the rest of the MENA countries. During these democratic movements, the role of visual artists and their artwork drew a great deal of attention for those interested in the study of resistance art and political unrest. Stemming from fundamental political ideas ― freedom, liberty of speech, equality ― artists/activists used a variety of visual elements to illustrate their deep sense of national identity. This collection is one of the first attempts to show how, during the Iran post-election crisis of 2009, resistance artists expressed the messages of the nation in their artwork.

-  Introduction: Digital Ethnography, Resistance Art and Communication Media in Iran, pp. 1298–1315,
Pedram Khosronejad

-       Thirty Years Later: Iranian Visual Culture from the 1979 Revolution to the 2009 Presidential Protests, pp. 1316–1343,
Elizabeth Rauh

-       The Green Screen: Neda and the Lost Voices, pp.1344–1370,
Andrea Duranti

-       Aestheticized Politics, Visual Cutlure, and Emergent Forms of Digital Practice, pp. 1371–1390,
Mazyar Lotfalian

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Dr. Pedram Khosronejad
Department of Social Anthropology
71 North Street
University of St. Andrews
St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL
Tel: +44 (1334) 461968
Fax: +44 (1334) 462985
Email:(pedram.khosronejad /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/files/staff/142/CV.pdf

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