'WHERE IS MY VOTE?' ICT politics in the aftermath of Iran's presidential election

Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-41

  Sohrabi Haghighat, M Hadi ^a   Mansouri, Shohre ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discursive opportunities; Green movement; Information and communication technologies (ICTs); Mobile phones; Political opportunities

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149352200     PISSN: 14490706     EISSN: 14490706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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