ANR-Lab Scientific Seminar "Discourse Analysis of the Image of Panic in the Media during Periods of Uncertainty"
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Dear colleagues, we invite you to the next session of our scientific seminar! On June 3 at 17:00 Stanislav Pashkov, a lecturer at the Department of Economic Sociology in the School of Sociology and a long-time friend of the laboratory, together with his colleagues, will talk about the results of studying the discursive practices of forming panic narratives in the media using the example of a well-known but not obvious object - buckwheat.
The study is devoted to the study of media signals in Russian media around socially significant categories of goods. Buckwheat, which has multiple semantic and performative meanings, is considered as a case study. The basis of the research is the analysis of news for the period 2014-2021, containing references to buckwheat and competing contexts (salt, rice) from 9 main media sources (Newspaper.<url>, Interfax, TASS, Fontanka, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, LENTA, RBC, RIA), made using a mixed methodological design. In the quantitative part of the study, more than 9 thousand documents were analyzed, collected using parsing, as well as using ready-made data sets for some sources. With the help of a mixed content analysis, the coincidence of periods of economic instability and a sharp increase in the number of news with the mention of buckwheat was revealed; thematic modeling identified two main thematic news groups: neutral news and news tied to the economic and political context; The sentiment analysis (based on the BERT methodology) demonstrated predominantly neutral coverage of news related to buckwheat, however, we can talk about a more negative assessment of news during periods of economic uncertainty by socio-political publications, which confirms the relevance of the analysis. Special attention was paid to advanced discourse analysis based on semantic graph analysis. Semantic networks have been built for 33 unique documents describing the buckwheat discourse in 2014 and 2020. The main conclusions include the inclusion of Russia in the international economic and political context against the background of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the evolution of the media field itself, with the advent of new technological platforms and a change in emphasis on the information agenda.
Along with Stanislav, following Sociology majors who also took part in the study will join the seminar:
Doronina Anastasia
Eremina Maria
Zernova Ilona
Rogovitskaya Yuliya
Language of the Seminar: English.
Register via the link. If you have any troubles, please, write to Artem Oganyan.