17 October 2024 - The Narratives of the War in Ukraine in Czech News Media

On October 17, 2024, Jakub Stauber, guest speaker of the VSHIFT Momentum project at poltextLAB, gave a lecture at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science titled The Narratives of the War in Ukraine in Czech News Media.

Jakub Stauber is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science of Charles University in Prague. The guest lecture focused on the application of supervised machine-learning methods to detect the presence of Russian and Western narratives about the war in Ukraine. Based on a unique corpus of Czech main news media outlets, the presented analysis  demonstrated the capabilities and possible limitations of the newly fine-tuned deBERTa model.