Mediawar. Tecnologie e conflitto nella guerra Russia-Ucraina: rappresentazione mediale e discorsivizzazione nel web sociale.

In this research work we analyzed some traditional media, such as newspapers
and a digital social media such as Twitter, to verify the hypothesis that
the emerging narrative about the Ukraine war can be a contrast between
a “good” part, which lives in the contemporary digital world, and a “bad”
part, which comes from the Soviet analogue era. The research is structured
in two phases: the first is closer to the classical analysis of traditional
media discourse (7 national newspapers), while the second uses the social
network analysis (SNA) techniques on Twitter. The time span is from February
24, 2022 to June 15, 2022. In general, the contrast between “good
web” vs “bad web” emerges much more than that one between obsolete
vs digital technologies. The double analysis reveals a different representation of the relationship between war and technology, where traditional
media (paper newspapers) presents a more polarized approach and social
media (tweets) a more segmented representation.