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
@Lusa_noticias The Islamic Republic is killing us in the streets of Iran. We just ask do not negotiate with them. Dont shake hand with them.
The great Iranian revolution is happening righ now and Iranians are fighting for Freedom.
#MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی |
RT @HichkasOfficial: Spain/EU must not give in to Islamic Republic's demands for kidnapped citizens #AnaBaneiraSuarez and #SantiagoSanchez.… |
RT @Action4IR: @WSJ @WSJopinion Hossein Ronaghi, an Iranian blogger, and human rights activist, is in danger. He is on a hunger strike whil… |
RT @emilykschrader: Hey @elonmusk we’ve got a big issue going on Twitter with pro-Iran regime accounts threatening Iranians abroad, includi… |
طی شد دو بیست سالم و انگار کن دویست
چون بخت و کام نیست چه سود از دویستم
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی |
RT @HichkasOfficial: #ElhamAfkari who's been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic, is on hunger strike. IR's accused her of working with @Iran… |
RT @Action4IR: @NazaninBoniadi Please take immediate action about Hossein Ronaghi's situation. His life is in danger of death @UN_HRC @P4HR… |
RT @TheDrIman: After more than 40 days of hunger strike in prison
Hossein Ronaghi,an Iranian human rights activist,suffers from Multiple Or… |
RT @SMohyeddin: Another teenager. 19 year old Yalda Aghafazli was abducted while on her way home in #Tehran on Oct. 26. & taken to Qarchak… |
Three years ago, her son
(Navid Afkari) was executed
for participating in the
protests. Now her other
children have been arrested.
The Islamic Republic is
afraid of the families of
those it has killed.
#MahsaAmini
@nytimes @hrw @CBCNews @FoxNews @UN |
RT @FattahiFarzad: قله کلکچال
#مهسا_امینی
«از قلههای تهران فریاد میزنیم
زنده باد بلوچستان، بژی کردستان»
#MahsaAmini
٢٠ آبان، تهران htt… |
RT @__Injaneb96: Let's do this, all of us, everywhere in the world. In the memory of Khodanour Lajaei.
#خدانور
#مهسا_امینی
#NoNIAC
#Mahs… |
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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