Slogans and Opposition Political Culture: Online Discourse in Iran's Green Movement
Description:
In this study I investigate the Iranian Green Movement supporters' use of slogans as political discourse on the Persian-language opposition website www.kaleme.com. Data was collected from the website's Kaleme section in the form of 22 articles and 3,500 user comments. A coding scheme was constructed to measure the presence of categories and themes in the site's comments section. Findings support the propositions of narrative theorists (e.g. Franzosi, 1998; Benford, 1993) that frequent use of sl…
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Date:
December 2012
Creator:
Ryan, Trent
Partner:
UNT Libraries