[Air-L] 13 February Book Launch "Twitter Activism and the Current Uprising in Iran"

[Ülker Sözen]

We kindly would like to remind the book launch and discussion:

* “Twitter Activism and the Current Uprising in Iran” *

*with Dr. Hossein Kermani (University of Vienna) & **Dr. Gi Yeon Koo (Seoul
National University Asia Center) *

*Date: 13 February 2026, Friday, 10:00 CET*

You can find further info and the Zoom link here
<https://ecpr.eu/news/news/details/902>*.*

Best regards,

ECPR RN on Digital Authoritarianism Steering Committee

Ülker Sözen <ulk.sozen at gmail.com>, 2 Şub 2026 Pzt, 12:52 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:

> ECPR Research Network on Digital Authoritarianism
> <https://ecpr.eu/group/digital-authoritarianism> kindly invites you to
> the book launch and discussion:
>
> * “Twitter Activism and the Current Uprising in Iran” *
>
> *Author: Dr. Hossein Kermani (University of Vienna)*
>
> *Discussant: Dr. Gi Yeon Koo (Seoul National University Asia Center) *
>
> *Date: 13 February 2026, Friday, 10:00 CET*
>
> You can register here <https://ecpr.eu/Events/337>. Please find the
> details below.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Steering Committee
>
> ----------------
>
> Twitter Activism in Iran: Social Media and Democracy in Authoritarian
> Regimes <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81538-6> by
> Hossein Kermani investigates Twitter activism in authoritarian regimes,
> with particular attention to Iran. The platform has been blocked in Iran
> since the 2009 presidential election and its subsequent protests, the Green
> Movement. Nevertheless, Iranians have been continually using it to date.
> Recently, another significant hashtag movement unfolded in Iran after the
> death of Mahsa Amini. But it is only an instance of how Iranians employ
> Twitter to fight a dictatorship. Given the unique context of Iran as a
> non-democratic society with a high number of Twitter users, this book tries
> to explore how Iranian users participate in politics, challenge the regime,
> mobilize their protests, and shape anti-regime discourses. It also examines
> the strategies that the Iranian regime takes to dismantle Twitter
> activism. Moving from the book, the lecture will further discuss the
> dynamics of the current uprising and brutal state repression in Iran.
>
> *Hossein Kermani* is a senior researcher at the Political Communication
> Research Group of the University of Vienna, Austria. He studies social
> media, digital repression, computational propaganda and political activism
> in restrictive contexts, with particular attention to Iran. He is the
> principal investigator of the BeyondCBA project, which is funded by WWTF.
>
> *Gi Yeon Koo* is a HK professor at Seoul National University Asia Center,
> South Korea. Gi Yeon Koo’s current interest focuses on Islamophobia in
> Korea, Muslim migration and refugee in Korea, Media and Social Movements in
> Iran, Young Generation’s Popular Culture, and Iranian Women.
>
> -----------------
> Dr. Ülker Sözen
> Postdoctoral research fellow (DFG 2022-2026, Gerda Henkel Foundation
> 2024-2027)
> Chair of Development Politics, University of Passau
> Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University
>