Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.63.1.1
War in Ukraine: quantitative-qualitative analysis of content on the Bitno.net portal
Nenad Palac
orcid.org/0000-0001-8817-9970
Jadranka Garmaz
orcid.org/0000-0002-5239-1985
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has made a whole series of events that form a global crisis on
the humanitarian, economic, diplomatic, and ecumenical level. Media houses around the world follow and report on this war, focusing on specific highlights that are conformed with their editorial policy. The goal of this research is to determine how much and in what way the Bitno.net editorial office reports on the war in Ukraine and which thematic areas are the most represented. Using the method of content analysis, on a qualitative and quantitative level, we analyse 213 articles published on the Bitno.net portal in 2022 that directly relate to the treatment of the war in Ukraine. The results of the research show a significant Reliance of the portal’s editorial staff on external (agency) sources on both the qualitative and quantitative level.
Keywords
Bitno.net; Ukraine; Russia; war; refugees
Hrčak ID:
302903
URI
Publication date:
24.5.2023.
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