Facebook in Iran: social capital and the Iranian social media -- Gender roles in the social media world of Iranian women -- The role of social media in the lives of gay Iranians -- Disabled Iranians on social media: reflections on the empowering experiences of the Iranian pwds in the blogosphere -- The politics of online journalism in Iran -- The Persian blogosphere in dissent -- The politics and anti-politics of Facebook in context of the Iranian 2009 presidential elections and beyond -- Trans-spatial public action: the geography of Iranian post-election protests in the age of Web 2.0 -- Balatarin: gatekeepers and the politics of a Persian social media site -- Architectures of control and mobilization in Egypt and Iran -- Social media and the Islamic Republic -- Political memory and social media: the case of Neda -- Iranian cinema and social media -- The online avant-garde: Iranian video art and its technological rebellion.