ArticleAuthors: Hossein Kermani (2020)
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 Kermanshah earthquake in Iran. Three different kinds of narratives were found
on Persian Twitter: contained narratives, master narratives, and
connective narratives. Although these narratives lack some features of a classic narrative, they generall... 
