Agenda divergence in a developing conflict

Quantitative evidence from Ukrainian and Russian TV newsfeeds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12904809
AutoresOlessia Koltsova (0000-0002-2669-3154, National Research University Higher School of Economics, autor de correspondencia), Sergei Pashakhin (0000-0003-0361-2064, National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Año2019
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas237-257
Fecha de publicación2019-02-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia War & Conflict (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6352 • E-ISSN: 1750-6360
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750635219829876
OpenAlexW2780548801
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas51

Although conflict representation in media has been widely studied, few attempts have been made to perform large-scale comparisons of agendas in the media of conflicting parties, especially for armed country-level confrontations. In this article, the authors introduce quantitative evidence of agenda divergence between the media of conflicting parties in the course of the Ukrainian crisis 2013–2014. Using 45,000 messages from the online newsfeeds of a Russian and a Ukrainian TV channel, they perform topic modelling coupled with qualitative analysis to reveal crisis-related topics, assess their salience and map evolution of attention of both channels to each of those topics. They find that the two channels produce fundamentally different agenda sequences. Based on the Ukrainian case, they offer a typology of conflict media coverage stages

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