Hugo Velazquez Perez Kovach and Ally Temple (2023) "Crystallized Exposure." This video presents a data visualization of one million posts collected from Twitter in November 2022 using the tag #MahsaAmini. Our aim was to determine how many hashtags were populated from the least to most significant by countries. We needed a way to depict the hashtag's popularity globally. Each crystalized structure represents a country/region. The cluster increases in size while the shape changes. Size represents the increase in the number of tweets.
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran
(Woman, Life, Freedom)
On 16 September 2022, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jina (Mahsa) Amini died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards. The Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma before being transferred to a hospital. However, eyewitnesses, including women who were detained with Amini, reported that she was severely beaten and that she died as a result of police brutality, which was denied by the Iranian authorities. The assertions of police brutality, in addition to leaked medical scans, led some observers to believe Amini had a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke due to head injuries received after her arrest.
The significance of her death is multi-layered. While the hashtag #MahsaAmini served as the largest category through which this story was shared across social media, her real Kurdish name was Jina.
As Soha Saghazadeh has guided us on the centrality of the name Jina and the Kurdish root of this chant, see "'Jîna:' Erasure of Kurdish Women and Their Politics from the Uprisings in Iran" by Farangis Ghaderi and Ozlem Goner. The extended version of this article has been published in IJMES, "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds." Also, find Jin, Jiyan, and Azadi articulated in transnational joint struggle in this collective statement: "Jin Jiyan Azadî, as in Free Palestine."
#MahsaAmini on Twitter
RT @HichkasOfficial: #ElhamAfkari who's been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic, is on hunger strike. IR's accused her of working with @Iran… |
RT @AlinejadMasih: At the risk of getting arrested or killed, brave Iranian women are writing the revolutionary slogans of “woman, life, li… |
RT @Sima_Sabet: This is mother of #NavidAfkari a wrestler that was executed by Islamic Republic
Navid’s sister Elham,was arrested with non… |
RT @HichkasOfficial: #ElhamAfkari who's been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic, is on hunger strike. IR's accused her of working with @Iran… |
RT @Omid_M: Powerful remarks by the German chancellor @OlafScholz: “our principal focus is on all those responsible for this violence…we wa… |
RT @SMohyeddin: Another teenager. 19 year old Yalda Aghafazli was abducted while on her way home in #Tehran on Oct. 26. & taken to Qarchak… |
RT @HichkasOfficial: #ElhamAfkari who's been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic, is on hunger strike. IR's accused her of working with @Iran… |
RT @sinavaliollah: خب تا الان علیکریمی زن ستیز شد، مسیح مرد ستیز، اینتل تجزیهطلب شد، بیبیسی مزدور، اسماعیلیون خودخواه، مهران مدیری آدم… |
شعله های خشم مردم خودشون رو هم بزودی میسوزونه. ✌🏻
#MahsaAmini #OpIran #IranRevoIution2022
#مهسا_امینی #اعتصابات_سراسری #توماج_صالحی #حسین_رونقی #حديث_نجفى #انقلاب۱۴۰۱ #توماج_صالحی #ستار_بهشتی https://t.co/gP4RhwTNpG |
همه اون قصه هایی که از صحرای کربلا میگفتید و همه جا تعریف میکردید و خودتون دارید روی مردمای کشورتون پیاده میکنید!
شما حرومزاده ها حتی روی یزید و معاویتونم سفید کردید از جنایت و قتلایی که انجام دادید!
#مهسا_امینی
#mahsaami̇ni̇
#OpIran |
RT @NoToExecution_: @___SayTheirName @Jews4Abolition @guardian @BBCWorld @TheSun @JohnMatthewHall @MailOnline @RoyalReporter @richardaeden… |
RT @arminarefi: NOUVEAU MACABRE BILAN du nombre de victimes depuis le début de la révolte en #Iran : 326 manifestants tués, dont 43 enfants… |
Network Visualization on half a million tweets on #MahsaAmini circulating among 60,000 users in November 2022. The red tweets are in Farsi, the green are English, and the white are French.
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