Results

The Corpus

You can find & browse the corpus of our project here.

Here are some blogposts authored by CORECON researchers regarding the CORECON corpus compilation decisions and methods of doing corpus-based research:

February 10, 2025

The uses of topic modeling in CORECON: Potentials and challenges
January 24, 2025

Corpus compilation and data annotation protocols in CORECON
October 28, 2024

How we collect, manage and process our research material for CORECON

Publications

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna. 2025. Social actors and storylines in the coverage of Russian-Ukrainian war in English and Polish-language tabloids. Journalism Studies, 1–21 Download

Matusiak, Rafał, and Robert Radziej. 2025. Framing of the wartime economic situation in Polish business journalism during Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Media, War & Conflict, 1-18.Download

Dragomir, Isabela-Anda, and Valerica Sporiș. 2025. The rhetoric of headlines in Romanian and English language media covering the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Insights for journalism literacy. International Conference Knowledge-based organization, 31 (2), 141-149.Download

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna, and Jan Paszczyński. 2025. Rhetorical and linguistic devices in the argumentation against supporting Ukraine in the radicalized Polish media sphere. Res Rhetorica, 12 (2), 46-73.Download

Deutchmann, Marcin, and Jędrzej Olejniczak. 2025. Unwanted encounters: Anti-Ukrainian rhetoric in the social media reception of migrants by the Polish far-right. Res Rhetorica, 12 (2), 74-94. Download

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna, and Isabela-Anda Dragomir. 2025. Demystifying, delegitimizing, debunking: Discursive editorial strategies of neutralizing the rationales for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. Media, War & Conflict, https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352251314876.

Bâlc, Denisa-Maria, and Iulia-Maria Ticărău. 2024. Women and Visual Rhetorical Strategies in Media Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta, Seria Filologie 15 (2), 538–551.Download

Wilk, Przemysław, and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska. 2024. Constructing solidarity in discourse: A pragma-linguistic analysis of selected speeches by president Zelensky addressed to international community. Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski, 15 (2), 151-162. Download

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna. 2024. Enhancing Resilience Against War-Related Disinformation: Insights from Diagnostic Studies and Interventions at Polish Schools. Transilvania, 9, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2024.09.07 Download

Bâlc, Denisa-Maria, and Iulia-Maria Ticărău. 2024. Conflict representations: Analyzing the polarization of men’s and women’s images in Romanian media coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Transilvania, 9, 77–83. Download

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna. 2024. Review of Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption.
Władza Sądzenia, 26, 97-103. Download

Ilis, Ecaterina. 2024. Review of Truth Claims Across Media. Władza Sądzenia, 25, 105-108.
https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-1690.26.07 Download

Scientific events organized

“Responsible Journalism in the Era of AI”, Opole, 27-31 October 2025

Presentations delivered by the members of CORECON research team during the scientific event

“From fact-checking and deepfake-spotting to critical media literacy: Disinformation interventions” (Opole, 27-31 October 2025)

“Responsible crisis and conflict coverage: A linguistic/multimodal perspective” (Opole, 27-31 October 2025)

Legal context: Media, democracy and disinformation (Opole, 27-31 October 2025)

CORECON-based scientific event “Responsible journalism in the era of AI” as a FORTHEM Alliance collective short-term mobility at University of Opole

Researchers’ Night 2025, Sibiu, 26 September 2025

Adolescents’ Perception of the War inUkraine on Social Media: A Researchers’ Night Experiment

CORECON Conference “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture”, Sibiu, 9-11 July 2025

Find conference programme and details here.

Scholarly highlights of the CORECON conference on July 9-11, 2025

Participants’ Reflections from CORECON 2025 Conference

Researchers’ Night 2024, Sibiu, 27 September 2024

CORECON Lucian Blaga University’s “Researchers’ Night”: A Report on a Workshop with High School and Secondary School Students

Panel during 29th Conference of International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies, Opole, 18-21 September 2024

Presentations delivered by the members of CORECON research team during 29th IAICS conference

“Unwanted Encounters” (Opole, 19 September 2024)

“Subjectivities and storylines in tabloid war coverage” (Opole, 19 September 2024)

“Alternate construals of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict” (Opole, 19 September 2024)Download

“Framing of wartime economic situation in Polish business-related outlets” (Opole, 19 September 2024) Download

Understanding conflict across cultures and discourses: A report from a CORECON international science dissemination event

Conferences presentations

“Language, Security, Technology” Conference, University of Defence Language Centre in Brno, Czech Republic, 14-15 October 2025

“The headlines in Romanian and English language media covering the Russian-Ukrainian conflict – a comparative stylistic analysis” (Brno, 14-15 October 2025)

“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture” Conference, Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania 9-11 July 2025

Find presentations delivered by CORECON members at the Conference here.

“CILDI25: 3rd International Conference of Digital Linguistics”, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 26-27 June 2025

“Large language models and political bias: The case of Russian-Ukrainian conflict” (Valencia, 26-27 June 2025)

“Unconventional representations of war actors, leading figures and affected people in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A corpus analysis of the non-human animals in the Romanian and English-language media (2022-2024)” (Valencia, 26-27 June 2025)

“A brief analysis of the role of multimodality via AI in the news coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the Romanian mainstream media” (Valencia, 26-27 June 2025)

AI-assisted news values analysis: Trivialization, sensationalism and newsworthiness. But until when? (Valencia, 26-27 June 2025)

“KBO 2025: The 31 International Scientific Conference The Knowledge-based Organization”, “Nicolae Balcescu” Land Forces Academy of Sibiu, Romania, 14-15 June 2025

“The rhetoric of headlines in Romanian and English language media covering the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Insights for journalism literacy”, (Sibiu, 14-15 June 2025)

“9th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2025”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 16-18 May 2025

“Reporting on the war in the Ukraine: Linguistic patterns of newsworthiness, narrativity, and social actor representation” (Poznań, 16-18 May 2025)

“Visuality 2025: Social Innovations for Sustainability Communication” Conference, Vilnius 8-9 May 2025

“Shaping economic sustainability in crisis: Linguistic and visual narratives in Polish media” (Vilnius, 8-9 May 2025)

“Discourse Across Cultures” Conference, Brasov 21-22 March 2025

“What does ChatGPT have to say about the war in Ukraine?” (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)

“A battle of David and Goliath” (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)

“Alternative vs. Mainstream Media Discourse?” (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)

“The Role of Photography in Shaping the Female Imaginary during Military Conflicts (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)

“Conflict and Consent” (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)

“What about Ukraine?” (Brasov, 21-22 March 2025)