COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers

During the COVID-19 pandemics, numerous data trackers presented relevant information on morbidity and mortality rates. Journalists combined their own calculations with official data from Rosstat, Rospotrebnadzor, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Center for Disease Control and Preventio...

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Main Author: Sening Marina
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Language:English
Published: Kemerovo State University 2025-08-01
Series:Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.21603/2782-4799-2025-4-3-251-260
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description During the COVID-19 pandemics, numerous data trackers presented relevant information on morbidity and mortality rates. Journalists combined their own calculations with official data from Rosstat, Rospotrebnadzor, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Australian Bureau of Statistics, CovidLive, Johns Hopkins University, etc. As a result, COVID-19 data trackers acquired a certain suggestive potential and developed additional meanings. Despite the official factual basis, they contained metaphors and lexical units with a negative emotional connotation, accentuated by title typography. The interactive data visualization contained color-highlighted graphic metaphors and other graphic elements. As the key element of data tracking, data visualization is a continuous message that has no end in time: it’s development is unpredictable for the journalist since it depends on the incoming data. Ideally, this message is supposed to be updated as the new data keep coming. However, the journalists that published COVID-19 data trackers directed their readers’ attention to certain indicators, thus transferring unbiased facts to the axiological field.
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
data journalism
COVID-19
data tracker
data visualization
continuous message
suggestion
semiotic
title COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
title_full COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
title_fullStr COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
title_short COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers
title_sort covid 19 pandemic in russian and foreign data trackers
topic data journalism
COVID-19
data tracker
data visualization
continuous message
suggestion
semiotic
url http://doi.org/10.21603/2782-4799-2025-4-3-251-260
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