Voices from the war: What tweets reveal about refugee experience

What is on the minds of people fleeing the war in Ukraine? An interdisciplinary study by the University of Würzburg provides new perspectives. It will be presented at a public conference on 26 September. What are the worries and fears of people fleeing war zones in Ukraine? What do they talk about in social networks? And: What issues are they dealing with after they have fled? The chairs of English Linguistics and Global Urbanisation and Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (JMU) have now worked on a new study about this. Researchers led by Prof. Carolin Biewer and Prof. Hannes Taubenböck evaluated tweets from refugees and analysed them in terms of content, time and place of origin. This enabled them to determine the phase of the war in which postings were made and whether their Study sheds light on refugee events from new perspectives. Researchers from linguistics, geography, remote sensing and computer science worked together to evaluate the study. Their goal: to offer a personal insight into the consequences of war in order to better understand the needs of refugees.