H Kermani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 40051 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Kermani |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Kermani |
| FIRMA | KERMANI H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6626-1364 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Hashtag activism and its enemies
This paper examines how the Iranian regime’s online supporters sought to manipulate and suppress the #MahsaAmini movement on Iranian Twitter. Whereas prior work emphasizes the emancipatory potential of hashtag activism, less is known about the discursive and rhetorical tactics authoritarian actors use to undermine such mobilization. Drawing on critical discourse and rhetorical studies, we analyse 6,170 tweets posted by 1,388 influential pro-regim…
Incivility, domination, and resistance
This study investigates how and to what extent Iranian users employ and discursively articulate uncivil language during the Women, Life, Freedom movement on Persian Twitter (X). Despite the substantial line of inquiry into hate speech and incivility, our understanding of the ways different user communities employ them during anti-regime protests in non-democratic societies is still niche. To address this gap, our empirical analysis focuses on a d…
Digital battleground
Repression through anti-repression tools
This study examines whether and how Iranian Telegram channels coordinated to disseminate propaganda and disinformation during the 12-day Israel – Iran war (13–24 June 2025). Building on digital repression and computational propaganda research that remains Twitter-centric mainly, the analysis centers on Telegram and includes channel types typically treated as nonpolitical intermediaries. A dataset of 47,567 posts from 29 channels was collected and…
Decoupled agendas under repression
Despite a growing body of research on intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) in the contemporary hybrid media landscape, this line of inquiry remains mainly Western-centered. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies across different social platforms and between social media and official online media in authoritarian regimes. We combined computational, quantitative, qualitative, and discursive methods to address these gaps by investigating intermedia agen…
The Limits of Computational Propaganda
The art of delirium
In spite of the existing literature, which focuses mainly on Western contexts, this article argues that malicious activities on social media, particularly Twitter, are not limited to false information and bot activism in non-democratic societies. I argue that authoritarian regimes aim to suppress any kind of meaningful action on social media by bombarding users with a sheer of true and false messages. The aim is to create what Hannah Arendt calls…
Profile
This paper discusses 1) how #MahsaAmini has become a significant hybrid movement in Iran and 2) how it is taking Twitter activism into the post-fake news era. I will begin by reviewing the existing literature on Twitter and democracy. Then, I will discuss the roots of the #MahsaAmini, which make it a hybrid movement. Further, I will show how Iranians have circumvented the regime's fake news campaigns and cyber army. This paper argues that while n…
Framing the Pandemic on Persian Twitter
This study makes a dual contribution to the current literature. First, it examines how Iranian Twitter users framed the COVID-19 crisis in collaborative practice, networked framing. Second, it explores the potential for topic modeling in automated frame identification. The study analyzes a dataset of 4,165,177 tweets collected from Iranian Twittersphere between January 21, 2020 and April 29, 2020. The results indicate that Iranians predominantly …
Walking with Bourdieu into Twitter communities
This paper offers some insights into Twitter as a political field, based on Bourdieu's field theory. Networked publics, as agents of this field, are competing overpower by performing networked practices. To investigate this field, we focused on two networked practices: networked framing and narrating. Persian Twitter in 2017 presidential election provides a good context to analyze how such a field is constituted. Combining a social-network analyt…
Computational vs. qualitative
Despite the increasing adaption of automated text analysis in communication studies, its strengths and weaknesses in framing analysis are so far unknown. Fewer efforts have been made to automatic detection of networked frames. Drawing on the recent developments in this field, we harness a comparative exploration, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and a human-driven qualitative coding process on three different samples. Samples were comprise…
A case study on the Covid-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches
This paper aims to analyze former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s thirty speeches on COVID-19 delivered between February 2, 2020 and April 27, 2020. We apply Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse analysis to investigate and analyze Rouhani’s rhetorical and discursive strategies in making meaning of COVID-19. Findings showed that COVID-19 discourse in Rouhani’s speeches has mainly revolved around three nodal points: “the country”, “the enemy”…
Bots Versus Humans
This article explores how the pandemic in Iran was discursively framed by automated accounts and human users. While there is a growing body of literature on bot activism, little is known about how bots and humans framed the pandemic in authoritarian regimes. Drawing on networked framing theory, we use both computational and qualitative methods to fill this gap. Our empirical analysis centers on a data set of 4,165,177 tweets collected between 27 …
Populist discourse and the resulting discontent in hybrid regimes
This work is an attempt to fill the academic gap that neglects the close reading of speeches of political leaders in non-democratic societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, this research focuses on the rhetoric of Hassan Rouhani, the former president of Iran, during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. Using the two main rhetorical devices of identification and metaphor, this work analyzes all of Rouhani’s speeches from February 2, …
Protesting is Not Everything
Despite the fact that during political protests, Twitter usage has been substantially studied in various contexts, there are still some significant gaps in our understanding of the ways that this microblogging network is employed in regular political happenings, e.g., elections, particularly in authoritarian countries. As a result, it remains unclear if citizens in non-democratic countries use Twitter to protest at the time of regular political e…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
How a Connective Action Is Disrupted in Restrictive Contexts? The Case of Dismantling #Rape on Persian Twitter
Having reduced the cost of political activism, social media has provided room for ordinary citizens to engage in politics, build networks, spread information, and resist oppressive regulation (Howard & Hussain, 2013; Margetts et al., 2016). The ideas of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012) and hashtag activism (Jackson et al., 2020) are recent endeavors to theorize such transitions. However, the existing literature has overemphasized the…
Mapping Persian Twitter
This paper investigates the structure of networked publics and their sharing practices in Persian Twitter during a period surrounding Iran's 2017 presidential election. Building on networked gatekeeping and framing theories, we used a mixed methodological approach to analyze a dataset of 2,596,284 Persian tweets. Results revealed that Twitter provided a space for Iranians to discuss public topics. However, this space is not necessarily used by vo…
Political narrating in non-political crises
This paper investigates the narrativity practices on Persian Twitter. It explores how a narrative is produced on Twitter, identifies the popular narratives and investigates the connections between these popular narratives and the political and social narratives in Iran during non-political happenings. Using KhosraviNik’s model of critical discourse studies, it sampled a tweet corpus of 23,964 tweets, gathered in the first 24 h after the 2017 Kerm…
Decoding Telegram
This paper investigates the most-viewed posts in Persian Telegram channels during the period surrounding Iran’s 2017 presidential election. Telegram has become the most popular social medium in Iran, and its channels have played a significant role in recent social and political events. Based on the produsage theory and user-generated content concept, this research identifies the popular content and produsagers on Persian Telegram channels. Moreov…
Profile
This paper discusses 1) how #MahsaAmini has become a significant hybrid movement in Iran and 2) how it is taking Twitter activism into the post-fake news era. I will begin by reviewing the existing literature on Twitter and democracy. Then, I will discuss the roots of the #MahsaAmini, which make it a hybrid movement. Further, I will show how Iranians have circumvented the regime's fake news campaigns and cyber army. This paper argues that while n…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
Mapping Persian Twitter
This paper investigates the structure of networked publics and their sharing practices in Persian Twitter during a period surrounding Iran's 2017 presidential election. Building on networked gatekeeping and framing theories, we used a mixed methodological approach to analyze a dataset of 2,596,284 Persian tweets. Results revealed that Twitter provided a space for Iranians to discuss public topics. However, this space is not necessarily used by vo…
The art of delirium
In spite of the existing literature, which focuses mainly on Western contexts, this article argues that malicious activities on social media, particularly Twitter, are not limited to false information and bot activism in non-democratic societies. I argue that authoritarian regimes aim to suppress any kind of meaningful action on social media by bombarding users with a sheer of true and false messages. The aim is to create what Hannah Arendt calls…
Protesting is Not Everything
Despite the fact that during political protests, Twitter usage has been substantially studied in various contexts, there are still some significant gaps in our understanding of the ways that this microblogging network is employed in regular political happenings, e.g., elections, particularly in authoritarian countries. As a result, it remains unclear if citizens in non-democratic countries use Twitter to protest at the time of regular political e…
Populist discourse and the resulting discontent in hybrid regimes
This work is an attempt to fill the academic gap that neglects the close reading of speeches of political leaders in non-democratic societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, this research focuses on the rhetoric of Hassan Rouhani, the former president of Iran, during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. Using the two main rhetorical devices of identification and metaphor, this work analyzes all of Rouhani’s speeches from February 2, …
Framing the Pandemic on Persian Twitter
This study makes a dual contribution to the current literature. First, it examines how Iranian Twitter users framed the COVID-19 crisis in collaborative practice, networked framing. Second, it explores the potential for topic modeling in automated frame identification. The study analyzes a dataset of 4,165,177 tweets collected from Iranian Twittersphere between January 21, 2020 and April 29, 2020. The results indicate that Iranians predominantly …
Computational vs. qualitative
Despite the increasing adaption of automated text analysis in communication studies, its strengths and weaknesses in framing analysis are so far unknown. Fewer efforts have been made to automatic detection of networked frames. Drawing on the recent developments in this field, we harness a comparative exploration, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and a human-driven qualitative coding process on three different samples. Samples were comprise…
A case study on the Covid-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches
This paper aims to analyze former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s thirty speeches on COVID-19 delivered between February 2, 2020 and April 27, 2020. We apply Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse analysis to investigate and analyze Rouhani’s rhetorical and discursive strategies in making meaning of COVID-19. Findings showed that COVID-19 discourse in Rouhani’s speeches has mainly revolved around three nodal points: “the country”, “the enemy”…
Political narrating in non-political crises
This paper investigates the narrativity practices on Persian Twitter. It explores how a narrative is produced on Twitter, identifies the popular narratives and investigates the connections between these popular narratives and the political and social narratives in Iran during non-political happenings. Using KhosraviNik’s model of critical discourse studies, it sampled a tweet corpus of 23,964 tweets, gathered in the first 24 h after the 2017 Kerm…
Decoding Telegram
This paper investigates the most-viewed posts in Persian Telegram channels during the period surrounding Iran’s 2017 presidential election. Telegram has become the most popular social medium in Iran, and its channels have played a significant role in recent social and political events. Based on the produsage theory and user-generated content concept, this research identifies the popular content and produsagers on Persian Telegram channels. Moreov…
How a Connective Action Is Disrupted in Restrictive Contexts? The Case of Dismantling #Rape on Persian Twitter
Having reduced the cost of political activism, social media has provided room for ordinary citizens to engage in politics, build networks, spread information, and resist oppressive regulation (Howard & Hussain, 2013; Margetts et al., 2016). The ideas of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012) and hashtag activism (Jackson et al., 2020) are recent endeavors to theorize such transitions. However, the existing literature has overemphasized the…
Mapping Persian Twitter
This paper investigates the structure of networked publics and their sharing practices in Persian Twitter during a period surrounding Iran's 2017 presidential election. Building on networked gatekeeping and framing theories, we used a mixed methodological approach to analyze a dataset of 2,596,284 Persian tweets. Results revealed that Twitter provided a space for Iranians to discuss public topics. However, this space is not necessarily used by vo…
Populist discourse and the resulting discontent in hybrid regimes
This work is an attempt to fill the academic gap that neglects the close reading of speeches of political leaders in non-democratic societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, this research focuses on the rhetoric of Hassan Rouhani, the former president of Iran, during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. Using the two main rhetorical devices of identification and metaphor, this work analyzes all of Rouhani’s speeches from February 2, …
Protesting is Not Everything
Despite the fact that during political protests, Twitter usage has been substantially studied in various contexts, there are still some significant gaps in our understanding of the ways that this microblogging network is employed in regular political happenings, e.g., elections, particularly in authoritarian countries. As a result, it remains unclear if citizens in non-democratic countries use Twitter to protest at the time of regular political e…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
Walking with Bourdieu into Twitter communities
This paper offers some insights into Twitter as a political field, based on Bourdieu's field theory. Networked publics, as agents of this field, are competing overpower by performing networked practices. To investigate this field, we focused on two networked practices: networked framing and narrating. Persian Twitter in 2017 presidential election provides a good context to analyze how such a field is constituted. Combining a social-network analyt…
Computational vs. qualitative
Despite the increasing adaption of automated text analysis in communication studies, its strengths and weaknesses in framing analysis are so far unknown. Fewer efforts have been made to automatic detection of networked frames. Drawing on the recent developments in this field, we harness a comparative exploration, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and a human-driven qualitative coding process on three different samples. Samples were comprise…
A case study on the Covid-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches
This paper aims to analyze former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s thirty speeches on COVID-19 delivered between February 2, 2020 and April 27, 2020. We apply Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse analysis to investigate and analyze Rouhani’s rhetorical and discursive strategies in making meaning of COVID-19. Findings showed that COVID-19 discourse in Rouhani’s speeches has mainly revolved around three nodal points: “the country”, “the enemy”…
Bots Versus Humans
This article explores how the pandemic in Iran was discursively framed by automated accounts and human users. While there is a growing body of literature on bot activism, little is known about how bots and humans framed the pandemic in authoritarian regimes. Drawing on networked framing theory, we use both computational and qualitative methods to fill this gap. Our empirical analysis centers on a data set of 4,165,177 tweets collected between 27 …
Decoupled agendas under repression
Despite a growing body of research on intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) in the contemporary hybrid media landscape, this line of inquiry remains mainly Western-centered. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies across different social platforms and between social media and official online media in authoritarian regimes. We combined computational, quantitative, qualitative, and discursive methods to address these gaps by investigating intermedia agen…
The Limits of Computational Propaganda
The art of delirium
In spite of the existing literature, which focuses mainly on Western contexts, this article argues that malicious activities on social media, particularly Twitter, are not limited to false information and bot activism in non-democratic societies. I argue that authoritarian regimes aim to suppress any kind of meaningful action on social media by bombarding users with a sheer of true and false messages. The aim is to create what Hannah Arendt calls…
Profile
This paper discusses 1) how #MahsaAmini has become a significant hybrid movement in Iran and 2) how it is taking Twitter activism into the post-fake news era. I will begin by reviewing the existing literature on Twitter and democracy. Then, I will discuss the roots of the #MahsaAmini, which make it a hybrid movement. Further, I will show how Iranians have circumvented the regime's fake news campaigns and cyber army. This paper argues that while n…
Framing the Pandemic on Persian Twitter
This study makes a dual contribution to the current literature. First, it examines how Iranian Twitter users framed the COVID-19 crisis in collaborative practice, networked framing. Second, it explores the potential for topic modeling in automated frame identification. The study analyzes a dataset of 4,165,177 tweets collected from Iranian Twittersphere between January 21, 2020 and April 29, 2020. The results indicate that Iranians predominantly …
Hashtag activism and its enemies
This paper examines how the Iranian regime’s online supporters sought to manipulate and suppress the #MahsaAmini movement on Iranian Twitter. Whereas prior work emphasizes the emancipatory potential of hashtag activism, less is known about the discursive and rhetorical tactics authoritarian actors use to undermine such mobilization. Drawing on critical discourse and rhetorical studies, we analyse 6,170 tweets posted by 1,388 influential pro-regim…
Incivility, domination, and resistance
This study investigates how and to what extent Iranian users employ and discursively articulate uncivil language during the Women, Life, Freedom movement on Persian Twitter (X). Despite the substantial line of inquiry into hate speech and incivility, our understanding of the ways different user communities employ them during anti-regime protests in non-democratic societies is still niche. To address this gap, our empirical analysis focuses on a d…
Digital battleground
Repression through anti-repression tools
This study examines whether and how Iranian Telegram channels coordinated to disseminate propaganda and disinformation during the 12-day Israel – Iran war (13–24 June 2025). Building on digital repression and computational propaganda research that remains Twitter-centric mainly, the analysis centers on Telegram and includes channel types typically treated as nonpolitical intermediaries. A dataset of 47,567 posts from 29 channels was collected and…
Politics (15 obras) · Social Media and Politics (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Social media (11 obras) · Media studies (10 obras) · Persian (8 obras) · Authoritarianism (7 obras) · Democracy (7 obras)