The fourth generation: two-thirds of Iranians are under 30--and blogging is more popular there than almost anywhere else. Nasrin Alavi has been listening to what they have to say.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 2007, January 2007
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The fourth generation: two-thirds of Iranians are under 30--and blogging is more popular there than almost anywhere else. Nasrin Alavi has been listening to what they have to say.
An Iranian blogger asks: 'Has everyone noticed the spooky absence of graffiti in our public toilets since the arrival of weblogs?' But unlike graffiti, Iran's blogs are boundless and global. Approximately one in five Iranians have internet access, and Persian is one of the world's most popular languages for keeping online journals.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yet as the Iranian blogosphere has grown, so has the Government's interest in repressing the medium. Bloggers have been jailed and last September officials proudly announced that 'more than 10 million websites were filtered', or blocked, in Ir...See the full content of this document
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