Master’s Research I set out systematically studying media practices first as a master’s student in cultural studies. In my master’s thesis, I examined Iranian underground music of the mid-2000s, an accessible, artistic medium of meaning production through which Iranian youth created and communicated frank, unprecedented accounts of their living experiences, emotions, and thoughts. In that … Continue reading The Production and Consumption of Underground Music among the Iranian Youth: A Study in the Genre’s Narrative Structure, Morphology, and Function