Erdogan and Ayatollah Khamenei’s Political Framing Modeling on Twitter toward Arab Masses

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ID12923655
AuthorsHaitham Numan (0000-0001-9115-1792, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue1
Pages48-72
Publication date2024-03-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Arab Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-0920 • E-ISSN: 1755-0912
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1163/17550920-bja00026
OpenAlexW4403856224
LanguageEN
References cited11

This article aims to compare the contents, discourse, and message frames of two Twitter accounts targeting Arab audiences using Arabic: first, the official account of Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (@khamenei_ir), who is a Twelver Shia Marja and current supreme leader of the Iranian regime, the second since 1989; and the official account of Recep Tayyip Erdogan (@RTErdogan), the president of Turkey since 2014. Covering all tweets from June 2018 to June 2020, the study collected 712 Khamenei and 388 Erdogan tweets. The article applies content analysis and framing theory, basing the analysis process on a mixed methodology (quantitative and qualitative) that uses grounded theory and considers each tweet as a unit of analysis. It reveals fifteen themes on Erdogan’s Twitter account and sixteen on Khamenei’s. The article shows that these two sets of themes were both convergent and divergent

Framing (construction · Geography · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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