Graduate student and teaching assistant Amirhossein Teimourigerdeh recently had a paper published in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 

From the abstract: "...This study examines the depoliticization of public intellectuals and particularly religious public intellectuals, during Iran’s 2013 presidential race. The political authority of public intellectuals was challenged by an emergent generation of tech-savvy activists with 'high journalistic profiles.' I argue that a new generation of activists intervened in the election across the overlapping space of journalism, digital activism, and political activism." 

Find the full text here.