Abstract
In Iran’s online political networks, bloggers are among the most commonly sourced external links, trumping both the domestic and international news media. Moreover, Iran’s political parties are more likely link to bloggers than to each other. Previous research for the Project on Information Technology and Political Islam found that Iraq’s online political sphere was brokered by a surprising amount of Western media. While one might expect the more radical anti-republican portion of the Iranian political sphere to reach out to Western media for support, parties across the spectrum utilize Iranian weblog hosting and link more frequently to Iranian media outlets than Western outlets.
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