Framing the War in Ukraine: A Study on the Argentine Digital Media Los encuadres de la guerra en Ucrania: un estudio sobre los medios digitales argentinos

ARCANGELETTI, ANTONELLA; ZUNINO, ESTEBAN

Comunicacion y Medios

Universidad de Chile

Lugar: Santiago de Chile; Año: 2023 vol. 32 p. 24 - 36

0716-3991

The war between Russia and Ukraine captured global media attention, a situation that did not escape Argentina. This paper analyzes the media treatment of the main Argentine digital media about that issue between February and April 2022. Based on the main objective of identifying which frames dominated the media agendas, the influence of international sources and global flows of information was investigated in the new digital environment. The results of an extensive content analysis show the predominance of a western vision of the problem. Meanwhile, a strong influence of European and American agencies is envisioned in the frames propagated by the Argentine media. In contrast, the Russian version of the problem was not only in the minority, but when it did appear, it was systematically discredited. The evidence of concentrated and asymmetric information flows opens the discussion on access to information at the height of digital convergence.