The Ukraine Case Studies
Investigating influence, networks, and security in the Ukraine crisis
Overview:
The Ukraine Case Studies are a collection of projects investigating the crisis in Ukraine linked in the Russia invasion in February 2022 that bring together an international group of multidisciplinary researchers and experts. The initiative is focusing on information and communication operations with implications for the present conflict and long-term global practices and policies. The research team is conducting overarching case studies of the developments around influence, networks, and security in the Ukraine crisis as well as a set of embedded case studies of particular developments within Russia, Ukraine and internationally.
These case studies are in early stages of development through working papers, the organisation of roundtable discussions, and funding for a survey of the public in Ukraine. The international team is being organised and managed by the Portulans Institute and comprises of researchers from the GCSCC, University of Oxford Saïd Business School, the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), the Institute of Sociology of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine and and the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute". The Ukrainian social scientists affiliated with the project are currently living in Ukraine, Ireland and Germany.
Projects
UNESCO and the government of Japan are supporting study on Access to Information Media Literacy about Politics. The project seeks to enhance understanding of how the Ukraine public access information on politics, the degree of trust they have in various media, and how individuals have adapted their media and literacy habits to the context of the ongoing war.
To meet these aims, a sample survey of 2,000 respondents in Ukraine has been conducted to gain insight on access to information and the media literacy of Ukrainians during the ongoing war following Russia’s invasion of the country. The survey will be complemented by qualitative in-depth interviews about the media landscape in Ukraine during this period. Results of the study will be disseminated widely and a report on the project will be published along with a series of short reports on key findings. The study will support recommendations on practical steps for Ukraine to address evolving issues of media literacy and the ability of its citizens to access reliable information in the context of a war on information as well as the people of Ukraine.
Publications
Abstract
This brief report provides preliminary findings of a project entitled ‘Access to Information and Media Literacy about Politics: A Collaborative Study'. This project focuses on access to trusted sources of information among the Ukrainian population in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine following Russia's full-scale invasion. The study is anchored in a Web-based survey of individuals fielded by Rating Group, based in Kyiv, along with qualitative interviews with individuals who have experience in providing media, online news and information in the Ukraine context. The survey yielded responses from 2,014 individuals, which form the basis of this report, complemented by the information gained from qualitative interviews. A follow-on report will expand on the statistical and qualitative analyses presented here.
This research was conducted by The Portulans Institute in Washington DC as part of a project in partnership with UNESCO and with support from Japan.
