{"id":5409,"date":"2025-04-26T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:04:37","slug":"the-power-of-social-media-platforms-in-activism-during-the-russo-ukrainian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5409\/the-power-of-social-media-platforms-in-activism-during-the-russo-ukrainian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Social Media Platforms in Activism During the Russo-Ukrainian War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThe Russo-Ukrainian War had its beginnings in 2014, which was escalated by Russia into a full-blown invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It sparked an interest in online activism that is mostly advocating for Ukraine. This paper examines how pro-Ukrainian activists utilize social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and X\/Twitter to fact-check disinformation from Russia, create online fundraising efforts to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and raise awareness of the impacts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5409\/the-power-of-social-media-platforms-in-activism-during-the-russo-ukrainian-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The Russo-Ukrainian War had its beginnings in 2014, which was escalated by Russia into a full-blown invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It sparked an interest in online activism that is mostly advocating for Ukraine. This paper examines how pro-Ukrainian activists utilize social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and X\/Twitter to fact-check disinformation from Russia, create online fundraising efforts to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and raise awareness of the impacts of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1496,1499,1500,1498,1495,1494,1497,1501,1502],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-activism-2","tag-conference-2","tag-nafo","tag-onlinenetworksandsocialchange","tag-proukraine","tag-slavaukraini","tag-smcn2025","tag-standwithukraine","tag-stopwar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}