Infodemia dezinformacji na temat COVID-19 w Ukrainie
Infodemic of COVID-19 disinformation in Ukraine
Author(s): Rafał KęsekSubject(s): Politics, Communication studies, Social psychology and group interaction, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Health and medicine and law, Social Informatics
Published by: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego
Keywords: infodemic; disinformation; COVID-19; Ukraine; Russia
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of infodemic and related disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic that shaped the Ukrainian infosphere in 2020-2022. The considerations contained in the text focus mainly on the specific features of the phenomenon at issue, and are an attempt to answer the question of how much the disinformationon COVID-19 in the Ukrainian version differs from analogous trends shaping the internal situation and the infosphere in other countries around the world. The article presents a working thesis that the covid infodemic in Ukraine had, first of all, a clear external provenance (largely single-source), as well as a highly adaptive nature, as a function and element of a wider disinformation campaign carried out by the Russian Federation towards Ukraine and its inhabitants. The presented analysis allowed to identify the main elements characteristic of the disinformation infodemic in Ukraine and confirm the dependence of the studied phenomenon on an external factor, i.e. the influence of the Russian Federation.
Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
- Issue Year: 385/2022
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 53-61
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English, Polish