Collective trauma is the outcome of traumatic incidents that necessitate collective self-reflection and create a need for public discourse. Access to social media allows individuals to shape event coverage beyond what is put forth by mainstream media through hashtag-based communities. The death of Sahar Khodayari, or “Blue Girl,” an Iranian woman who committed suicide after being sentenced to prison for appearing in a sports stadium dressed as a man, is one such event that became a collective trauma. The current study sought to examine the collective trauma reaction among Farsi-speaking Twitter users in response to Khodayari's death as represented in public tweets. The overall pool of data consisted of 8,653 tweets containing at least one of four hashtags (i.e., #BlueGirl, #Blue_Girl,, # #), posted September 9–24, 2019, as well as 603 tweets posted on the anniversary of the event 1 year later. Using thematic analysis, we identified three main themes within these public tweets representing different responses to Khodayari's death: social justice, awareness, and process. In undemocratic countries, like Iran, where there are limited free physical spaces for public gatherings, social media provides a platform for people to come together after tragic events to express emotions and discuss thoughts and actions. The present findings demonstrate that Twitter allowed Farsi-speaking users to demand social justice, share awareness about #BlueGirl, and process their emotions and thoughts accordingly. Therefore, social media may provide a window into the collective trauma experience, and it may also serve as a new mode of studying trauma on new platforms.

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#BlueGirl：Twitter 上的集体创伤研究

集体创伤是创伤事件的结果，需要集体自我反省并需要公开讨论。访问社交媒体允许个人通过基于标签的社区来塑造事件报道，超出主流媒体提出的范围。萨哈尔·霍达亚里 (Sahar Khodayari) 或“蓝色女孩”(Blue Girl) 是一名伊朗妇女，她因扮成男装出现在体育场馆而被判入狱后自杀，这样的事件已成为一种集体创伤。当前的研究试图调查讲波斯语的 Twitter 用户对公共推文中 Khodayari 之死的集体创伤反应。整个数据池由 8,653 条推文组成，其中至少包含四个主题标签之一（即#BlueGirl、#Blue_Girl、、##)，于 2019 年 9 月 9 日至 24 日发布，以及 1 年后在活动周年纪念日发布的 603 条推文。通过主题分析，我们在这些代表对 Khodayari 之死的不同反应的公共推文中确定了三个主要主题：社会正义、意识和过程. 在伊朗等不民主的国家，公共集会的自由空间有限，社交媒体为人们在悲惨事件后聚集在一起表达情感、讨论思想和行动提供了一个平台。目前的调查结果表明，推特允许讲波斯语的用户要求社会正义，分享对#BlueGirl 的认识，并相应地处理他们的情绪和想法。因此，社交媒体可以提供一个了解集体创伤经历的窗口，也可以作为一种在新平台上研究创伤的新模式。