3. 1. Statistical community and how to collect data
Within discourse analysis, the basic unit of analysis is the text. Texts, as the product of linguistic practices, have a hidden understanding of our meaning of the world. The text can be used as an intermediary window to understand the relationship between discourse and the social world (Zhou and Qin, 2020). Therefore, it is required to mine the texts to decode the discourses. To this end, scholars mostly explore narratives or storylines in various texts, such as books, news, press reports, official documents, speeches, as well as policymakers’ interviews (Walton and Boon, 2014; Zhou and Qin, 2020; Isoaho and Karhunmaa, 2019). In this study, in consultation with people (theoretically saturated) who have been members of Telegram channels and chat groups for more than a year, 4 channels and one Telegram group were selected that have criteria such as number of members, popularity and reputation. The link to access the information of the group and the channels along with their names will be placed in this research to be available online. The present study includes all the online data of the mentioned group and telegram channels from April 25, 2021, to June 24, 2021.