War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war
In light of the current Russia-Ukraine war, traumatic stress in civilian Ukrainians is a critical issue for psychological science to examine. Social media is often viewed as a tribune for authors’ self-expressing and sharing stories on the war’s impact upon their lives. To date, little is known abou...
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Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
2022-12-01
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| author | Serhii Zasiekin Victor Kuperman Iryna Hlova Larysa Zasiekina |
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| description | In light of the current Russia-Ukraine war, traumatic stress in civilian Ukrainians is a critical issue for psychological science to examine. Social media is often viewed as a tribune for authors’ self-expressing and sharing stories on the war’s impact upon their lives. To date, little is known about how the civilians articulate their own war experience in social media and how this media affects the processing of traumatic experience and releasing the traumatic stress. Thus, the goal of the study is to examine how the personal experience of the Russia-Ukraine war 2022 is narrated on Facebook as a popular social media venue. The study uses a corpus of 316 written testimonies collected on Facebook from witnesses of the Russia-Ukraine war and compares it against a reference corpus of 100 literary prosaic texts in Ukrainian. We analyzed both corpora using the Ukrainian version of the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software – LIWC 2015 (Pennebaker et al., 2015). We identified psychological and linguistic categories that characterized the war narratives and distinguished it from the literary reference corpus. For instance, we found the style of Facebook testimonies to be significantly less narrative and more analytic compared to literary writings. Therefore, writers in the social media focus more on cognitive reappraisal of the tragic events, i.e., a strategy known to lead to a reduction of stress and trauma. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcfb284cc3ba4aef8fc934ecbe1ee8322023-09-03T12:20:00ZengLesya Ukrainka Volyn National UniversityEast European Journal of Psycholinguistics2312-32652313-21162022-12-019210.29038/eejpl.2022.9.2.zas614War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine warSerhii Zasiekin0Victor Kuperman1Iryna Hlova2Larysa Zasiekina3Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, UkraineMcMaster University, CanadaLesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, UkraineLesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, UkraineIn light of the current Russia-Ukraine war, traumatic stress in civilian Ukrainians is a critical issue for psychological science to examine. Social media is often viewed as a tribune for authors’ self-expressing and sharing stories on the war’s impact upon their lives. To date, little is known about how the civilians articulate their own war experience in social media and how this media affects the processing of traumatic experience and releasing the traumatic stress. Thus, the goal of the study is to examine how the personal experience of the Russia-Ukraine war 2022 is narrated on Facebook as a popular social media venue. The study uses a corpus of 316 written testimonies collected on Facebook from witnesses of the Russia-Ukraine war and compares it against a reference corpus of 100 literary prosaic texts in Ukrainian. We analyzed both corpora using the Ukrainian version of the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software – LIWC 2015 (Pennebaker et al., 2015). We identified psychological and linguistic categories that characterized the war narratives and distinguished it from the literary reference corpus. For instance, we found the style of Facebook testimonies to be significantly less narrative and more analytic compared to literary writings. Therefore, writers in the social media focus more on cognitive reappraisal of the tragic events, i.e., a strategy known to lead to a reduction of stress and trauma.https://eejpl.vnu.edu.ua/index.php/eejpl/article/view/668russia-ukraine war, facebook, narrative, liwc, categorical-dynamic index |
| spellingShingle | Serhii Zasiekin Victor Kuperman Iryna Hlova Larysa Zasiekina War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war East European Journal of Psycholinguistics russia-ukraine war, facebook, narrative, liwc, categorical-dynamic index |
| title | War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war |
| title_full | War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war |
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| title_short | War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war |
| title_sort | war stories in social media personal experience of russia ukraine war |
| topic | russia-ukraine war, facebook, narrative, liwc, categorical-dynamic index |
| url | https://eejpl.vnu.edu.ua/index.php/eejpl/article/view/668 |
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