Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 2009 Iranian presidential election in the coverage of CNN and Al-Jazeera English websites / Mohammed el-Nawawy -- The Canadian media-framing of the 2009 Iranian presidential election / Mahmoud Eid and Aliaa Dakroury -- The 2009 Iranian presidential election in the Polish media / Tomasz Płudowski -- The portrait of Iran : how the Turkish press covered the 2009 presidential election / Banu Akdenizli -- A comparative analysis of the Egyptian and Iranian presidential elections media coverage / Rasha Allam -- The presidential election in Iran in 2009 : pre- and postelection news coverage in the German press / Christine Horz -- How the mass media defined Iran's destiny : a general overview of the role of media outlets in Iran's June 2009 presidential election / Kourosh Ziabari -- Televised presidential election debates : a brief comparative analysis of the American and Iranian debates / Negin Hosseini -- What's that I chirping I hear? : from the CNN effect to the Twitter effect / Nancy Snow -- Bullets with butterfly wings : tweets, protest networks, and the Iranian election / Ali Fisher -- Graphic content : the semiotics of a YouTube uprising / Setareh Sabety -- The role and impact of new information technology (NIT) applications in disseminating news about the recent Iran presidential election and uprisings / Mahboub Hashem and Abeer Najjar -- The role of e-diplomacy in Iranian and Xinjiang riots / Li Xiguang and Wang Jing -- Khameni's group against Khomeini followers / Madhav D. Nalaput -- Silencing Iran's Twitterati : how U.S. sanctions muzzle Iran's online opposition / Trita Parsi, David Elliott, and Patrick Disney -- Legal opinion as political action : the significance of Ayatollah Montazeri's postelection fatwa in delegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran / Ahmad Sadri and Mahmoud Sadri -- Televising the "velvet revolution" : show trials in the aftermath of Iran's tenth presidential election / Ibrahim Al-Marashi -- The Ramadan controversy : dilemmas in mediating between cultures through the study of Dutch and Iranian media discourses in the post-Iranian uprising / Payal Arora and Ashok Panikkar -- Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive : mutual instrumentalization of culture, cinema, and media by Iran and the United States / Hamid Naficy -- Social networking media and the revolution that wasn't : a realistic assessment of the revolutionary situation in Iran / Jonathan M. Acuff -- Are we Neda? The Iranian women, the election, and international media / Sareh Afshar -- Symbols, signs, and slogans of the demonstrations in Iran / Elham Gheytanchi -- Friend or foe? The challenges and tribulations of Iranian reporters working for Western media / Siavush Randjbar-Daemi -- Cyber disobedience : weapons of mass media destruction? / Michele Bach Malek.