Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election

Elson, Sara Beth; Yeung, Douglas; Roshan, Parisa; Bohandy, S. R.; Nader, Alireza

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“…Because Twitter feeds can contain a massive amount of information and text, it is important to be able to limit the amount of data when using Twitter as a source of research material (Elson et al, 2012). The strategy to base the sample on the use of specific hashtags has been proposed in previous studies (see, for example, Bruns and Burgess, 2011;Bruns and Stieglitz, 2013;Elson et al, 2012;Heverin and Zach, 2012;Larsson and Moe, 2013). In this study, consideration has been made for both the subject of the tweets as well as to the time dimension, and only tweets from the day of the attacks up until 2 weeks after (a time frame used previously in, for example, Stone and Pennebaker, 2002), and only those containing the hashtags #oslo, #oslexpl, #osloexplosion, #explosion, #osloblast, #utøya, #utoya, #utöya, #utoeya, #breivik, #prayfornorway and/or #terrorist, were included in the sample.…”

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Managing collective trauma on social media: the role of Twitter after the 2011 Norway attacks

Eriksson

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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This study analyses the meaning-making discourse on Twitter in the 6 days following the 2011 Norway attacks. The attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya resulted in 77 deaths, of which 69 were youths on Utøya, where a summer camp arranged by the Norwegian Social Democratic youth organisation Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (AUF) was being held. The main discursive themes in the material were found to be focused on the Norwegian nation, expressions of solidarity, the meaning and outcomes of the attacks, as well as details of the attacks themselves. These themes were of changing importance over the 6 days following the attacks, as discussions concerning the Norwegian nation and the attacks themselves dropped rapidly in favour of negotiating the explanations behind the attacks. Twitter was shown to be useful for providing backchannel discourse negotiations that were separate from the mass media discourse concerning the attacks.

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Managing collective trauma on social media: the role of Twitter after the 2011 Norway attacks

Eriksson

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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“…This may indicate that people who use social media more are more expressive about their political views, which may be because social media provides a safe outlet for Saudis to express themselves politically. Also, Saudis can use social media to interact with people from other countries (Elson, 2012).…”

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The Enlivenment of Public Opinion in the New Era: Exploring the Power of Social Media on Political Consciousness in Saudi Arabia

Alsubaie

Lyndon

Salman

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Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

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This research aimed to study how social media has changed the culture of communication in Saudi Arabia. The research surveyed 400 Saudis who use social media in order to discover likely relationships between degree of expression, political consciousness, amount of social media use, apparent attitude climate, government censorship and purposes for using social media. A survey questionnaire was used to answer projected hypotheses and research questions, and the data was analyzed using SPSS software. The results found solid connections between different variances, namely the amount of social media practice, degree of expression liberty, and level of political consciousness. Also, a strong and substantial effect was found on the way that people perceive the opinion climate via social media. Furthermore, entertainment was the primary reason why Saudis use social media that prejudiced their expression freedom, political consciousness and perceived opinion climate. The study is applicable to the youth as well as the adult population in Saudi Arabia in relation to opinion and political conscience. Only a few studies have drawn attention to the link between political conscience and use of social media, and this research focuses on the novelty and genuineness of research by using the population from a Kingdom. Contribution/Originality: This is one of the few studies that have investigated the power of social media on political consciousness in Saudi Arabia when viewed from relationships between the degree of expression, political consciousness, and amount of social media use.

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“…In 2011, Murphy Choy's Twitter sentiment failed to predict Singapore's 2011 presidential election (Choy et al 2011). Several research projects on Twitter sentiment analysis in particular have emerged during the last few years, including one 80-page report by the RAND Corporation that uses tweets by Iranians to measure public opinion in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election (Elson and et al 2011).…”

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Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space

Al-Rawi

2021

Mass Communication and Society

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Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg) which facilitated this edited volume both conceptually and financially. The Philipps-Universität Marburg founded the research network in spring 2013 with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF). Its founding was triggered by the developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2009, which highlighted the need for a partial reassessment of scholarship on MENA countries, for a development of new interdisciplinary perspectives, and for a deepening of our understanding of the events unfolding in the region: their underlying reasons, historic roots, and future perspectives. Our gratitude extends also to Gregory Fisk for style editing as well as to Leslie Karina Debus and Isabelle Wientzek for copy editing this manuscript.

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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election

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Managing collective trauma on social media: the role of Twitter after the 2011 Norway attacks

Managing collective trauma on social media: the role of Twitter after the 2011 Norway attacks

The Enlivenment of Public Opinion in the New Era: Exploring the Power of Social Media on Political Consciousness in Saudi Arabia

Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space

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