Abstract The Israeli genocide against Palestinians has revealed a new phase in global imperial politics. Western universities have become key sites at the center of these politics, necessitating new modes of scholarship and engagement with ongoing struggles for liberation. In this article, I outline the process of analyzing a dataset of the hashtag campaign #tweetₗikeᵢt’sfree from the 2021 Unity Uprising, where I turn the dataset into a poem. I propose the term “felt analysis” to describe both the sensorial attunement to the tweets and the tactile and embodied component of analyzing them. I investigate the relationship between conducting research during, about, and for a particular moment, attending to the questions: What does it mean to research digital culture in a moment when it is mobilized for resistance as well as oppression? How can we engage in scholarship around technology and resistance that not only documents and understands social movements but also creates opportunities to feel for the moment and help endure and survive it? By weaving the tweets into a poem, I document a feeling from 2021 in 2024, sharing the defiant dreams from a liberated Palestinian future to confront the violence of the present and create an opening toward liberation.
Sulafa Zidani (Thu,) studied this question.