Responses to disasters in russian and french speaking twitter: Notre Dame de Paris and st. Peter and st. Paul of nantes cathedrals fires cases
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https://doi.org/10.47475/2070-0695-2022-10316Keywords:
online discussions, polarization, discursive strategies, responses to disastersAbstract
The paper explores how disasters are discussed in politically and ideologically polarized social media space by the example of discussions on the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral fire and Nantes Cathedral fire on the French and Russian Twitter. Datasets were collected and analyzed with facilitation of Netlytic program. The qualitative analysis of revealed posts (N=100 for each case) was performed based on the grounded theory approach.
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