Stance and Engagement in Participants' Response to the News of Russian War in Ukraine in Facebook Discussion
Journal: Studies in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
Year: 2023

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has continued for more than a year and has had a number of detrimental effects on both nations. The invasion has sparked a significant amount of discussions and arguments on social media. This study focuses on how Facebook users take diverse positions on the Russia-Ukraine war through their comments on war related news items on Facebook. 619 purposively selected readers’ comments on news items posted on four conventional news media Facebook walls constituted