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 @sinavaliollah: صدای زندانیان باشیم، این زیر خبرهای زندانیان و بازداشتیها رو منشن کنین.
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی |
@HNeumannMEP #Hossein_Ronaghi 's life, an Iranian human right activist, who has been arrested, is in danger! He is now in multiple organ failure and requires ICU care which has been denied by the government! He is kept in Evin and heart arrest is expected any minute! #MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی |
@mehrbanoo71 اگر مينويسم:
#حسین_رونقی را آزاد كنيد
#حسین_رونقی را آزاد كنيد
#حسین_رونقی را آزاد كنيد
#حسین_رونقی را آزاد كنيد
#Hossein_Ronaghi
معنيش اين نيست كه تنها او مهم است، همه ي زندانيان سياسي بايد آزاد شوند. ولي وقت براي #حسین_رونقی خيلي تنگ است، خيلي…
#مهسا_امينی
#MahsaAmini |
RT @JasonMBrodsky: As leading dissident @HosseinRonaghi is fighting for his life in jail, an #Iran regime MP who supports severe punishment… |
@NazaninBoniadi #MahsaAmini |
RT @arminarefi: « AZADI » (LIBERTÉ) écrit en lettres de feu ce samedi 12 novembre par une Iranienne dévoilée au pied de la tour Azadi, l’un… |
خسرو، چو نرد عشق به جان باختی، کنون
ماندن به دست تست، گرو را زیاد کن
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی |
RT @mdubowitz: ❤️@HNeumannMEP
#IranRevoIution2022 #MahsaAmini |
RT @sana_sutu: This is an old picture of the #Afkari family. They look like a happy family with parents who undoubtedly hoped for the best… |
RT @AlinejadMasih: Tonight, in the city of Zanjan, Iranians, women and men, are singing the revolutionary song called “Barayeh” in unity. I… |
RT @FattahiFarzad: قله کلکچال
#مهسا_امینی
«از قلههای تهران فریاد میزنیم
زنده باد بلوچستان، بژی کردستان»
#MahsaAmini
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RT @HichkasOfficial: #ElhamAfkari who's been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic, is on hunger strike. IR's accused her of working with @Iran… |
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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