Using social media to gauge Iranian public opinion and mood after the 2009 election / Sara Beth Elson ... [et al.].

• TeilnehmendeR: Elson, Sara Beth.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: RAND Corporation technical report series Using social media to gauge Iranian public opinion and mood after the 2009 election
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (109 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the months after the contested Iranian presidential election in June 2009, Iranians spoke out about the election using Twitter--a social media service that allows users to send short text messages, called tweets, with relative anonymity. This research analyzed more than 2.5 million tweets discuss...

Table of Contents

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures and Table; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Analysis of Social Media Can Help Gauge Public Opinion and Mood in Closed Societies; A New Computer-Based Tool Offers a Promising Means of Tapping intoPolitically Oriented Content in Social Media; This Type of Analysis Can Have Important Policy Uses; Organization of This Report; Chapter Two: Methodology; The Precedent for Our Approach: Previous Research Using LIWC and Word-Usage Analysis; LIWC Has Been Shown to Accurately Represent Verbal Expression
• The Real Potential of Exploring Word Usage Lies in Its Links with Behaviors and OutcomesWord Usage Is Now Being Studied in Politically Oriented Contexts; Our Research Process; Planning Tasks: Understanding the Sphere of Relevant Social Media; Selecting Twitter Texts; Selecting Iran-Relevant Political Topics; Selecting the LIWC Word Categories to Use in Our Analysis and Defining How We Would Interpret Them; Chapter Three: Background on Social Media Use in Iran and Events Surrounding the 2009 Election; Social Media Use in Contemporary Iran
• The Scale of Internet and Social Media Usage in Contemporary IranWho Is Using Social Media in Iran?; The Anonymity Factor; The Iranian Information Environment Prior to the 2009 Presidential Election; The Use of Social Media During the 2009 Presidential Election in Iran; The Role of Social Media in Iran's Internal Politics Grew Rapidly After the 2009 Presidential Election; Major Events in Iran During the Post-Election Period; The Rise of Mass Protests; June 19: Khamenei's Friday Prayer Speech; June 20: Neda Agha-Soltan's Death; July 9: Anniversary of the 1999 Student Uprisings
• August 5: Ahmadinejad's InaugurationSeptember 18: Quds Day; Late December: Ashura Day Protests; February 11, 2010: 31st Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution; Chapter Four: Overall Trends in Public Mood in Iran After the 2009 Presidential Election; Public Mood Throughout the Nine Months After the Election; Twitter's Clearest Indicator of Mood and Forecaster of Action: Swear Words; Use of Pronouns on Twitter After the Election; Summary; Chapter Five: Iranian Public Opinion About Specific Topics in the Aftermath of the 2009 Election
• Public Opinion Leading Domestic Political Figures: Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Mousavi, and KarroubiSummary; Background; Comparing Trends in Public Opinion About Political Figures; Around the Quds Day Protest, Twitter Users Wrote More Negatively About Khamenei Than About Ahmadinejad; At Certain Points, Twitter Users Wrote More Positively and Less Negatively About Karroubi Than About Mousavi; Initially, Twitter Users Swore More About Ahmadinejad Than About Mousavi, but the Opposite Became True; Policy Implications
• Pro-Government and Opposition Groups: The Green Movement, the Revolutionary Guards, and the Basij