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This book provides an analysis of social media and women s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology s role in politics and society and an in-depth analysis of authoritarianism and its relationship to social media harms and state violence. With a particular focus on images, hashtags, and other digital content, it calls for a rethinking of the concepts of crime, culture, and control in the technosocial world. The author draws on conceptual contributions from the fields of criminology, philosophy, psychology, technology and media studies.