Class
Article
College
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Department
Special Education and Rehabilitation Department
Faculty Mentor
Claudia Schwabe
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Abstract
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating the ongoing war. The Western media began reporting about the attack as soon as information became available. News reports, articles, and social media were flooded by information related to the conflict, including the stories of refugees from this war as they left Ukraine to other countries around Europe. Throughout this war, German media coverage has been generally pro-Ukraine, showing the country and its refugees sympathy and support, says the Diplomatic Courier. While the war between Russia and Ukraine is still raging, the Western media has not covered the topic as much as it was in Spring 2022. There has been a notable decline in media coverage over the past year, according to a news article by the German public television broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). This decline has been especially prevalent in the coverage of Ukrainian refugees in German media. This study determines what might have led the German media to decrease their coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and in particular its coverage of Ukrainian refugees, even though the issue is as prevalent today as it was a year ago. This study pays particular attention to the cultural and racial influences in the German media coverage of Ukrainian refugees, along with how war fatigue has potentially influenced the change in media coverage in Germany and Germans’ views on the war and its refugees.
Location
Logan, UT
Start Date
4-11-2023 11:30 AM
End Date
4-11-2023 12:30 PM
The Russo-Ukrainian War: Understanding the German Media Coverage of Ukrainian Refugees
Logan, UT
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating the ongoing war. The Western media began reporting about the attack as soon as information became available. News reports, articles, and social media were flooded by information related to the conflict, including the stories of refugees from this war as they left Ukraine to other countries around Europe. Throughout this war, German media coverage has been generally pro-Ukraine, showing the country and its refugees sympathy and support, says the Diplomatic Courier. While the war between Russia and Ukraine is still raging, the Western media has not covered the topic as much as it was in Spring 2022. There has been a notable decline in media coverage over the past year, according to a news article by the German public television broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). This decline has been especially prevalent in the coverage of Ukrainian refugees in German media. This study determines what might have led the German media to decrease their coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and in particular its coverage of Ukrainian refugees, even though the issue is as prevalent today as it was a year ago. This study pays particular attention to the cultural and racial influences in the German media coverage of Ukrainian refugees, along with how war fatigue has potentially influenced the change in media coverage in Germany and Germans’ views on the war and its refugees.