Frames and sentiments of the Twitter communication by German Chancellor Scholz during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Journal: Politics in Central Europe
Year: 2023

Abstract In a complex information environment, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents a major challenge to the communication of political leaders throughout the world. The objective of this article is to analyse the frames and sentiments used by German chancellor Olaf Scholz, employing a novel data set of his Twitter communication (N = 612) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine between 24 February 2022 and 24 February 2023. A combination of computational text analysis approaches with natural lan