:: Volume 10, Issue 32 (2013) ::
2013, 10(32): 187-214 Back to browse issues page
Acceleration of Islamic Revolution's Victory Process Based on McLuhan's Theory
Amin Navakhti Moqaddam * , Morteza Mirzanejad
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This article mainly focuses on how and with the aid of what media Islamic revolution's leadership spread revolution's ideology among the masses and when necessary he mobilized and organized people. To address this question McLuhan's classification of media into hot and cool has been applied to study the influence of media by Imam Khomeini and acceleration of Islamic revolution's victory. Having analyzed media used by revolution's leaders especially Imam Khomeini and having compared them to characteristics mentioned by McLuhan in his classification of media into hot and cool, we can figure out revolution leaders especially Imam Khomeini's insight in selecting the kind of media and the method to use them in order to spread revolution's ideology and mobilize masses with regard to revolutionary conditions of the society and political status of Pahlavi regime.
Keywords: hot and cool media, Islamic revolution of Iran, political mobilization, Pahlavi regime, Imam Khomeini.
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