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Cornucopia? Informationssökande i en föränderlig medievärld : En studie om rapporteringen om kriget i Ukraina

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 of February 2022, Swedish media have covered the war daily. Alongside the traditional media coverage a blog named Cornucopia, written by the author Lars Wilderäng, has gained popularity for its post about the ongoing war. In this study the blog Cornucopia and Sveriges Television’s, the Swedish public service television company, written live reporting are subject to textual- and quantitative analysis. The research question in this paper is what differs the two in framing, use of sources and interaction between writer and reader and amongst readers. The theoretical framework consists of framing, Digital Media Logic, Social News Logic and Social witnessing. The result shows that Sveriges Television, SVT, mostly use news agencies and statements made by Ukrainian politicians as source of information. Wilderäng mostly collects information from Twitter/X and the linked Twitter-accounts are often run by anonymous users. While the reporting on Cornucopia describes the harsh everyday reality of war SVT focuses more on economic support and sanctions against Russia. SVT has outsourced the interaction to social media platforms. Cornucopia on the other hand, has kept the interaction on the website and its comment field is frequently used.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-53299
Date January 2023
CreatorsSchullström, Ebba
PublisherSödertörns högskola, Journalistik
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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