Representations of Personal Experience of the War Reality in Ukraine in Reports on the Onet.pl Website

Abstract The article aims to analyse how the Onet.pl website presents the process of experiencing the reality of war by Ukrainians and Russians affected by this conflict. The subject of the analysis is the materials presenting the individual stories of ordinary citizens of Ukraine and Russia suffering the consequences of the war. The corpus of materials selected as a result of the content analysis included 99 texts published on the most opinion-forming portal in Poland, Onet.pl, in the first half of 2024. The adopted theoretical and methodological perspective included the theory of representation and the concept of framing. The conducted analysis aimed to answer the following research questions: 1). What categories of people do the stories presented in Onet.pl materials concern? 2). What types of war experiences do Onet’s editors choose to present to Polish audiences? 3). What general image of the Russian-Ukrainian war shapes or can shape the ways of presenting the stories of individuals who are experiencing the war reality? As a result of the research, eight dominant frames were identified: the suffering frame, the escape frame, the activity frame, the change/other world frame, the clash of civilizations frame, the moral activity frame, the women’s frame, and the children’s frame.