Digital footprints of Kashmiri Pandit migration on Twitter

Abstract

The paper investigates changing levels of online concern about the Kashmiri Pandit migration of the 1990s on Twitter. Although decades old, this movement of people is an ongoing issue in India, with no current resolution. Analysing changing reactions to it on social media may shed light on trends in public attitudes to the event. Tweets were downloaded from Twitter using the academic version of its applications programming interface (API) using the free social media analytics software Mozdeh. A set of 1000 tweets was selected for a content analysis with a random number generator in Mozdeh. The results show that the number of tweets about the issue has increased over time, mainly from India, and predominantly driven by the release of films like Shikara and The Kashmir Files. The tweets show apparent universal sup­port for the Pandits but often express strong emotions or criticize the actions of politicians, showing that the migration is an ongoing source of anguish and frustration that needs resolution. The results also show that social media analysis can give insights even into primarily offline political issues that predate the popularity of the web, and can easily incorporate international perspectives necessary to understand complex migration issues.

Investigating the Framing of the Tweets of Three Leading Political Parties of Pakistan

“…According to Masroor et al (2019), framing is an important tool used by politicians to prioritize the dialogue toward their stance. Framing modifies the dialogue by stressing specific aspects that generate a connotation between the issue and a particular mentioned frame (Gulzar, et al, 2022). Multiple farming techniques are discussed, such as hashtags, pictures, figurative language words, and sentiments that politicians use to frame (Khare et al, 2022).…”