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The Iran Media Program is a collaborative network designed to enhance the understanding of Iran's media ecology. The program seeks to use innovative approaches to understand the flow of information in Iran. Through a network of scholars and practitioners (the Iran Media Scholars Network), the Iran Media Program aims to contribute to Iran's civil society and the wider policy-making community by providing a more nuanced understanding of the role of media and the flow of information in Iran.
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Special issue: LGBT and homophobic Iranians take their feud online for IDAHO Day

Yesterday marked the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO Day). On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organisation removed ...

12:18pm Yesterday
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Persian cyberspace report: Lashing for Iranian cartoonist and a fatwa against a rapper

This week: Freedom of expression is under fire again in Iran as an Iranian cartoonist is sentenced to receive 25 lashes for a ...

11:45am Fri May 11
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Iran’s Media Coverage of Syria: Friendship or Folly-Yassmin Manaucheri

The Iranian media, hesitant to report on the Syrian conflict for so long, has been giving more and more coverage to the conflicts, ...

3:46pm Mon May 7
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Persian cyberspace report: Targeted subsidies cause controversy and the Persian Gulf fuels anti-Arab sentiment online

This week: More cultural crackdowns as Tehran’s International Book Fair draws nearer, Reuters under fire in a Tehran court, state ...

5:12pm Fri May 4
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A little-known and well-guarded secret both in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora community is Iran's censorship of its minority cultures...

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This one has quite interesting observations as well: Filmmakers say cheap straight-to-DVD dramas killing off Iranian film industry IMP Comments:...

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