The fetish of identity: communication revolutions and fundamentalist revivals

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The Flower Revolution of the Sixties in the United States, and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran are two prominent examples of social movements seeking identity and meaning in an increasingly anomic world. While they occur in entirely different socio-historical environments, they are not totally unrelated. Communication plays the role of a double-edged sword here by providing potentials for both social reconstruction and destruction. But more important, argues Majid Tehranian, the increasing alienation of people may give rise to a new phenomenon in the Third World—social revolutions that destroy but cannot build.

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