War through the lens of AI: image analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war in Spanish news

Di Gianvito, Angelo; Gatland, Oliver; Yuzkiv, Viktoriia

War through the lens of AI: image analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war in Spanish news

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Di Gianvito, A, Gatland, O, Yuzkiv, V. War through the lens of AI: image analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war in Spanish news. 2024. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68766

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This study aims to analyse the evolution of visual reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war in Spanish news broadcasts. We investigate how the depiction of the war changed from December 2022 to April 2024, focusing on the evolution of war coverage and on-the-ground war imagery. To achieve this, we use a subset of over 10,000 manually labelled screenshots from news broadcasts covering the Russia-Ukraine war, distinguishing between war-related and non-war-related content. Using a fine-tuned ResNet50 model, we track how the imagery of the war evolved over time, finding that the fluctuations in war images do not strongly correlate with actual events and military actions, suggesting a divergence between media representation and reality.