#Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

摘要

In this paper we investigate the use of social media for framing the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine. Using automatic classification of a large set of Twitter data, we investigate how the online representation of protests changed between different stages of the protest campaign; furthermore, we question how the framing of Euromaidan varied between different language streams. Our findings suggest that framing of Euromaidan on social media evolved from a peaceful movement to revolutionary force and then to existential danger to the Russophone population, prompting the continuation of political crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.