#iranelection considers the role of social media in the 2009 post-election crisis in Iran and, in turn, the effect of the Iranian protests on the development and adoption of various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. "Negar Mattahedeh's #iranelection offers a gripping chronicle of human solidarity in the age of social media. Analyzing Iran's 'green wave' in 2009 as at once an online and on-the-ground event, she connects it with earlier media revolutions, from Algeria's radio-fuelled revolution against French colonial rule to the cassettes and phone calls of the 1979 Iranian revolution. In Mottahedeh's inspiring account, the people pick up where the state and official media institutions fail."