Analysis of the tonality of publications of leading political figures regarding the vaccination campaign (on the material of telegram channels)
Keywords:
Telegram; political communication; vaccination; COVID-19; discourseAbstract
In this article we analyzed Telegram channels of leading political figures of Ukraine concerning publications covering the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic, the activity of this topic in the publications and their tonality were determined. As a result, we found out that the President of Ukraine has only 5 publications concerning vaccination with a predominant neutral tonality about it and the organization of vaccination. Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has 41 posts with predominant neutral tonality. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has the biggest number of posts – 49 with neutral tonality and ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has 34 posts with predominant negative tonality about the organization of vaccination.
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