Affinities of Dissent: Cyberspace, Performative Networks and the Iranian Green Movement

Affinities of Dissent: Cyberspace, Performative Networks and the Iranian Green Movement

Affinities of Dissent: Cyberspace, Performative Networks and the Iranian Green Movement
Babak Rahimi Article This paper argues that the role of Internet activism in the Green Movement, a social protest movement that emerged after the contested 2009 presidential elections in Iran, lies in the creative configuration of complex networks that primarily interact through meaning-laden performances that carve out spaces of dissent. For social movements, especially under authoritarian rule like the Green Movement, cyberspace presents a kind of social space…