The Framing Ukrainian Resistance: Identity, Democracy, and Civic Duty in Media Narratives of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Journal: Current Issues of Mass Communication
Year: 2026

This study presents a corpus-based analysis of Ukrainian media discourse on Ukrainian resistance during the full-scale phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war, which began in February 2022. Using computational methods, it investigates the correlations between resistance-related lexemes and key semantic clusters. The study proposes two hypotheses: first, that representations of Ukrainian resistance are closely associated with the concepts of national identity, freedom, democratic values, and responsibil