Alarming diagnosis: communication crisis in Ukrainian social networks during quarantine
• The number of Ukrainian social network users covered by panic mood is constantly growing.
• Panic mood, as well as over-optimistic, predominantly grounds on fake and manipulative data. Meanwhile, posts with constructive vision include much less share of fakes.
• Women who earlier relatively little been interested in politics now are most severely vulnerable to manipulations in this issue.
Panic mood, as well as over-optimistic, predominantly grounds on fake and manipulative data. Meanwhile, posts with constructive vision include much less share of fakes
Downloading our full presentation (in Ukrainian) you will be able to familiarize yourself with communication problems that appeared among the Ukrainian social network users during the quarantine. We revealed:
- Users' stock of the situation around pandemic in their posts (panic, denial of disaster or constructive mood);
- The credibility of sources of information about coronavirus and fakes spread;
- The country of origin of informational sources;
- Attitude to the actions of the authorities;
- Presence of jokes.
In addition, we defined from user profiles of posts authors:
- Their degree of involvement in the political discourse;
