A comparison of online news media framing of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict in Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. & China

• Název práce v češtině: Komparace zpravodajského rámování rusko-ukrajinského konfliktu z roku 2022 v online médiích v Ukrajině, Rusku, USA a Číně
• Název v anglickém jazyce: A comparison of online news media framing of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict in Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. & China
• Klíčová slova anglicky: 2022 Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Online Media, News Framing, Frame, Analysis, Content Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Extraction, War, NATO, Ukraine, Russia, China, U.S.
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2021/2022
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra bezpečnostních studií (23-KBS)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Damien Van Puyvelde, Dr.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 25.10.2021
• Datum zadání: 25.10.2021
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 16.06.2022
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 14.09.2022 10:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 01.08.2022
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 14.09.2022
• Oponenti: Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dr.

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Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

The 2022 conflict between Russia and Ukraine that ensued after the former invaded the latter has received extensive media attention around the world. The news media’s framing of the war ultimately has an impact on how its audience views the actions of the conflicting countries, their respective allies as well as other issues pertaining to the conflict. The online news media, due to its relatively easy and broad access, plays a key role in how the war is covered and framed. This study compares how major news websites in Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and China have framed their coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict between from December 2021 when Russia began to amass troops on its border with Ukraine, and the end of April 2022, when the war was still raging in Ukraine. The findings of this study indicate that the online news media’s framing of the conflict within each country largely mirror their respective government’s stated geostrategic interests regarding the war, particularly in terms of security, economics, energy supply and geopolitics. The comparison of each country’s online news coverage is presented with respect to four key indicators, which are emphasis, sentiments expressed, volume of coverage as well as phrasing & terminology. By combining Artificial-Intelligence based Topic Extraction and Sentiment Analysis models on 24,422 online news article headlines pertaining to the conflict, this research project identifies, examines and compares the inherent frames present in the news headlines with the aim of avoiding much of the subjectivity and idiosyncrasy that often besets manual methods of frame analysis.