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.