ABSTRACT
I start with a small communicative event, a letter from one person to another, and try to explore with and through it the ramifications for media analysis.1 I want to use the letter that President Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran sent to President George W. Bush of the United States in May 2006 to think about the multiple, intertwined, forms of communication that constitute the contemporary mediascape; the way it functions to erode the boundary between private and public space; and about how and which people are ‘interpellated’ by contemporary forms of communication. The forms and efficacy of contemporary international diplomacy, specifically the volatile relationship between the United States and Iran, will be only briefly touched upon here.
