Resumen de Característiques de la narrativa de Mek a Twitter en reflexió de les protestes de l'Iran al novembre de 2019: una anàlisi hermenèutica de vídeos de mash-up a Twitter
This study has a threefold purpose. It investigates the narrative given by the MEK (Mojahedin-E-Khalq) organization on the protests in November 2019 in Iran. To do so, it first offers a historical analysis of the contemporary political history of Iran to discover meta-narratives that are in tension in this society. In the second step, the study investigates the theoretical problem of making connections between the Hermeneutics and Twitter studies by applying to mimetic model suggested by Paul Ricoeur. Finally and in the third step, the study focuses on a corpus of data selected from MEK’s Twitter. This data includes 59 tweets from three MEK Twitter accounts. The study interests in finding the nature of the activity of these accounts to find the characteristics of the narrative constructed by MEK organization during the days of protests (nine days) in November 2019 in Iran.
The study, however, focuses on tweets that contain videos. In this way not only it analyzes the tweets in search for the meaning they make and the narrative they construct, but at the same time it looks for methodological aspects of analyzing mash-up videos as a new media genre that has emerged in the recent years due to technological progress and online devices.
The hermeneutical approach of the study is completed by applying to a range of theories from Framing and Pragmatics to structural narrative analysis, conceptual metaphor and meta-narrative analysis. The study suggests a narrative methodology of understanding Twitter (on political movements and its reflections on social media) as well as a methodology of understanding mash-up videos in general. On the next level it shows that MEK narrative has a fairytale structure and is framed by the ideological context it carries. Also the study shows that how meta-narratives are used as essential context for constructing such a narrative.
