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 @RoyaTheWriter: Insert Iranian for Ukrainian and the statement will be just as true.
#SlavaUkraini #MahsaAmini |
RT @IranNewsUpdate1: #IranRevolution2022—November 12, Day 58
Ilam, W #Iran—Protesters torch the local MP's office due to call for executing… |
RT @NedaSari: Watch brave & risk taking #IranProtests2022
Freedom-loving youth pays the price of freedom
Recently obtained footage shows a… |
RT @KayhanLondon: این فراخوان با طرحهای مختلف بطور وسیع در شبکههای اجتماعی دست به دست میشود: اعتصاب و اعتراض در روزهای ۲۴ و ۲۵ و ۲۶ آبان… |
@womensmarch Negar Mortazavi is not our voice❌ Don’t invite her to speak from Iraniam people 🚫
#NoNIAC
#MahsaAmini |
RT @__Injaneb96: . @womensmarch you are taking away our voice, the true voice of Iranian women by inviting someone that not long ago was at… |
I’ve been distracted by events in Iran where journalists get arbitrarily arrested. Didn’t realise U.K. is also heading that way 😳 Come on I can’t have both of my countries (birth and adopted) in turmoil! #MahsaAmini sorry can’t stop doing this # it’s become a habit 😅 https://t.co/LVK6yAnxll |
#مهسا_امینی
#MahsaAmini https://t.co/2Ea7BIe1UC |
RT @IranNewsUpdate1: #IranRevolution2022—November 12, Day 58
Tehran, #Iran's capital—Tehran University-Technical Engineering of Amirabad Pa… |
RT @FaridVahiid: Que s'est-il passé en prison pour #YaldaAghaFazli, 19 ans, pleine de vie, pour qu’elle se suicide seulement deux jours apr… |
@congallagher23 @CPFC 🆘 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 @emilykschrader: Courage! Parmida Ghassemi, a champion recurve archer on the Iranian national team, took off her mandatory hijab during… |
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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