From Protests on the Streets to a War in the East: Evolution of Discourse in a Prolonged Crisis
Journal: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Year: 2025

In January 2014, what started as peaceful protests in Kyiv, Ukraine escalated into an ousting of the Ukrainian president, then annexation of Crimea, and a protracted war between the new Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists. Meanwhile, Ukrainian citizens documented their experiences on Twitter, leading to the creation of multitudes of conversation spaces, or online publics, that evolved alongside the conflict they were discussing. We collected tweets in those conversations from Dec