A longitudinal study about gradual changes in the Iranian Online Public Sphere pre and post of ‘Mahsa Moment’: Focusing on Twitter
Sadegh Jafari, Amin Fathi, Abolfazl Hajizadegan, Amirmohammad Kazemeini, Sauleh Eetemadi
Abstract
Mahsa Amini’s death shocked Iranian society. The effects of this event and the subsequent tragedies in Iran not only in realspace but also in cyberspace, including Twitter, were tremendous and unimaginable. We explore how Twitter has changed after Mahsa Amini’s death by analyzing the sentiments of Iranian users in the 90 days after this event. Additionally, we track the change in word meaning and each word’s neighboring words. Finally, we use word clustering methods for topic modeling.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.lchange-1.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi Cassotti
- Venue:
- LChange
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 46–52
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.lchange-1.5
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.5
- Cite (ACL):
- Sadegh Jafari, Amin Fathi, Abolfazl Hajizadegan, Amirmohammad Kazemeini, and Sauleh Eetemadi. 2023. A longitudinal study about gradual changes in the Iranian Online Public Sphere pre and post of ‘Mahsa Moment’: Focusing on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 46–52, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A longitudinal study about gradual changes in the Iranian Online Public Sphere pre and post of ‘Mahsa Moment’: Focusing on Twitter (Jafari et al., LChange 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-bitext-workshop/2023.lchange-1.5.pdf