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1、DiasporicDisclosures:SocialNetworking,Neda,andthe2009IranianPresidentialElectionsNimaNaghibiBiography,Volume34,Number1,Winter2011,pp.56-69(Article)PublishedbyUniversityofHawai'iPressDOI:10.1353/bio.2011.0004Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bio/summary/v03
2、4/34.1.naghibi.htmlAccessProvidedbyCommunicationUniversityofChinaat09/16/129:20AMGMTDIASPORICDISCLOSURES:SOCIALNETWORKING,NEDA,ANDTHE2009IRANIANPRESIDENTIALELECTIONSNIMANAGHIBITherehasbeenmuchcelebratoryrhetoricaroundthepoliticalusesandbenefitsofsocialmediatechnologiesintheaftermathoftheJune
3、2009post-electionprotestsinIran.1Socialnetworkingsiteshavebeenseenascentraltopubliciz-ingandcirculating,foraglobalaudience,thepoliticalcrisisthatunfoldedinIranthatsummer.AttheheightoftheIranianprotests—andtheheightoftheWesterncoverageofthoseprotests,whichdominatedNorthAmericanmediafromJune1
4、3untilthedeathofMichaelJacksononJune25th—themoodon-lineandinthemediaappearedtobeexultant,rejoicinginthepowerofnewsocialmediatofacilitateglobalsolidarityinaheretoforeunprecedentedway.2Inanoft-citedblog,AndrewSullivanfromtheAtlanticenthusedaboutthepoweroftwitterasarevolutionarytoolfortheIrani
5、anopposition:“Youcannotstoppeopleanylonger.Youcannotcontrolthemanylonger.Theycanbypassyourestablishedmedia;theycanbroadcasttooneanother;theycanor-ganizeasneverbefore”(“Revolution”).InaninterviewontheuseofTwitterinIran,ClayShirky,anothernewmediaenthusiastandcriticexclaimed:“Thisisit.Thebigon
6、e.Thisisthefirstrevolutionthathasbeencatapultedontoaglobalstageandtransformedbysocialmedia”(Anderson).SullivanandShirky’shyperbolicviewofthepowerofTwitterandnewmediatoeffectchange—andevenbringaboutrevolution—wasechoedinnu-merousonlinesourcesduringandaftertheprotests.Therewasundoubted-lyanele
7、ctricchargetothecirculationofnewsabouttheJuneprotests,andthischargewasconveyedlargelyatthelevelofaffect.Televisionnewssta-tionsmaderepeatedreferencetotheunmediatedemotionalcontentofthedatacomingoutfromcellphones,YouTubeuploads,andtweets.Viewerswerecontin