A longitudinal study about gradual changes in the Iranian Online Public Sphere pre and post of ‘Mahsa Moment’: Focusing on Twitter

AbstractMahsa Amini’s death shocked Iranian society. The effects of this event and the subsequent tragedies in Iran not only in realspace but also in cyberspace, including Twitter, were tremendous and unimaginable. We explore how Twitter has changed after Mahsa Amini’s death by analyzing the sentiments of Iranian users in the 90 days after this event. Additionally, we track the change in word meaning and each word’s neighboring words. Finally, we use word clustering methods for topic modeling.