{"title":"Visual content of Twitter during the 2018 protests in Iran: Analysis of its role and function","authors":"M. Esfandiari, Bohdan Fridrich, Junxi Yao","doi":"10.1177/17427665211002228","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the visual content of Twitter posts, including photos and videos, published during the 2018 protests in Iran. Our main objective is to understand how these protests were visually represented on Twitter. The theoretical framework of this study is drawn from the ‘dynamic dual path way model of approach coping’ that categorizes responses of collective action in emotion-focused and problem-focused coping. Our findings reveal that visual content with efficacy-eliciting characteristics was posted more often than emotion-arousing content. Furthermore, visual content with more protest activity is more likely to be retweeted.","PeriodicalId":45157,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"213 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global Media and Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211002228","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study examines the visual content of Twitter posts, including photos and videos, published during the 2018 protests in Iran. Our main objective is to understand how these protests were visually represented on Twitter. The theoretical framework of this study is drawn from the ‘dynamic dual path way model of approach coping’ that categorizes responses of collective action in emotion-focused and problem-focused coping. Our findings reveal that visual content with efficacy-eliciting characteristics was posted more often than emotion-arousing content. Furthermore, visual content with more protest activity is more likely to be retweeted.
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Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.
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