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
@Ehsanism @__Injaneb96 #MahsaAmini #IranRevoIution |
بوسه که وعده کردهای میندهی و بنده را
در ره انتظار شد پای امید آبله
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
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RT @Omid_M: “That barrier of fear in #Iran has broken. So no matter what happens now, everyone tells you there is no way it’s going to go b… |
@conor_coady 🆘 Help 🆘
We, people of Iran ask for help from England football players and the people of the world.
We are against the Islamic Republic and do not recognise the Iran national football team.
Soon the internet will be cut off in Iran.
Please be OUR voice #MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی |
RT @Limportant_fr: «Mère de Navid, Habib, Vahid, Saeed et Elham, nous sommes tous avec vous. Sachez que vos enfants sont honorables. Nous a… |
RT @IranNewsUpdate1: #IranRevolution2022
The nationwide #IranProtests witnessed a major uproar on Friday, with protesters across the provin… |
RT @shahinnajafi80: اعلام خطر
مطلقا نباید درگیر بازیها و جنگهای رسانهها و بازیگرانشان شویم.
هیچ موضوعی نباید مسیر انقلاب را از اصل ماجر… |
RT @3mmmod: اثر ارسالی:
#اعتصابات_سراسری
#انقلاب_۱۴۰۱
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #Mahsa_Amini
#تحریم_دیجیکالا https://t.co/2bixWcXWsA |
RT @AlinejadMasih: I dream of getting a ticket to fly back to my beloved Iran to hug my family. It’s a dream of thousands of Iranians who h… |
@parisa136095 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 @IranNewsUpdate1: #IranRevolution2022
Nationwide #IranProtests continues despite the regime’s heavy crackdown and killing of 550+ protes… |
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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