Study of information relayed by press and social media concerning weaponizable biological and chemical agents in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Keywords:
Social media, Corpus analysis, Knowledge representation, Political communicationAbstract
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provoked the largest war in Europe since World War II, raising the risk of use of weapons of mass destruction. The objective of this study is to identify, based on lexicometric and descriptive analyzes of a corpus of data from press and social media, the main actors in communication around this issue from its outbreak until to April 2022. This study also presents the spatial and temporal distribution of the information retained. The methodological approach used here is of interest both in public health and in CIS. Few associated works in fact, both analyzes on social media and press media concerning health issues.
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