The Relevance of Compassion Fatigue in Social Media Discourse on the Russia- Ukraine Crisis
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special military operation against Ukraine, accompanied by the sounding of air-raid sirens in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, and the Russia-Ukraine crisis officially broke out.This East Asian crisis has attracted global attention and sparked extensive global media coverage.This study aims to explore the relevance of sympathy fatigue in the discourse of social media regarding the Russia-Ukraine crisis.At a time when digital warfare has become one of the forms of modern warfare, how the public, as a media audience, understands and creates public opinion has become the focus of research on social media audiences.The outbreak of a war crisis is also a tragedy for humanity.Digital warfare has created a new era of compassion fatigue.A critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of Weibo and Twitter reveals the different characteristics of the content of communication in the different social contexts of China and the West, the collision of nationalism and racism, the pursuit of peace and the spread of Confucianism.And underneath these contents, popular sympathy fatigue is weakened as well as enhanced.And reflecting on compassion fatigue itself, not only in terms of its communication effects but also in terms of understanding its own meaning, the enhancement of compassion is not necessarily the direction to be pursued, but for the strengthening of rational thinking and the supplementation of humanistic concern is the core of what needs to be worked on in the process of war news communication.
Author: Junlin Zhan
Institution: University of Glasgow
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4320511838