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   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Virtual Communication and Social Networks</journal-id>
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    <journal-title xml:lang="en">Virtual Communication and Social Networks</journal-title>
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     <trans-title>Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети</trans-title>
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   <issn publication-format="print">2782-4799</issn>
   <issn publication-format="online">2782-4802</issn>
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   <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">103191</article-id>
   <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21603/2782-4799-2025-4-3-251-260</article-id>
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     <subject>Медиакоммуникации и журналистика</subject>
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     <subject>Media Communications and Journalism</subject>
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     <subject>Медиакоммуникации и журналистика</subject>
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    <article-title xml:lang="en">COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian and Foreign Data Trackers</article-title>
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     <trans-title>Освещение пандемии COVID-19 в российских и зарубежных дата-трекерах</trans-title>
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       <surname>Сенинг</surname>
       <given-names>Марина Андреевна</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Sening</surname>
       <given-names>Marina Andreevna</given-names>
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     <email>sening.m@gmail.com</email>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский Томский государственный университет</institution>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">National Research Tomsk State University</institution>
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   <pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-08-12T10:37:59+03:00">
    <day>12</day>
    <month>08</month>
    <year>2025</year>
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   <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-08-12T10:37:59+03:00">
    <day>12</day>
    <month>08</month>
    <year>2025</year>
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   <volume>4</volume>
   <issue>3</issue>
   <fpage>251</fpage>
   <lpage>260</lpage>
   <history>
    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-05-03T00:00:00+03:00">
     <day>03</day>
     <month>05</month>
     <year>2025</year>
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    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-06-11T00:00:00+03:00">
     <day>11</day>
     <month>06</month>
     <year>2025</year>
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   <self-uri xlink:href="https://vestnik-hss.kemsu.ru/en/nauka/article/103191/view">https://vestnik-hss.kemsu.ru/en/nauka/article/103191/view</self-uri>
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    <p>Статья посвящена семиотическому анализу дата-трекеров о пандемии COVID-19 – материалов, в которых дата-журналисты представляли актуальную и динамическую информацию о заболеваемости и смертности от коронавируса. Источники информации – данные официальных органов и общественных институтов (Росстат, Роспотребнадзор, Министерство здравоохранения и социальных служб США, Центр по контролю и профилактике заболеваний США, Австралийское бюро статистики, общественный проект CovidLive, Университет Джона Хопкинса и др.), а также собственные расчеты журналистов. Цель – выявить суггестивность материалов дата-журналистов, основанных на статистических данных, и дополнительные смыслы, формируемые авторами материалов при предоставлении читателю информации. Выяснено, что, несмотря на фактологическую основу, в вербальном тексте использовались метафоры и лексические единицы, несущие негативную эмоциональную окраску. Установлено, что в интерактивной дата-визуализации содержались графические метафоры, цветом выделялись определенные графические элементы. В основе дата-визуализации, которая является ключевым элементом дата-трекера, лежит продолженное сообщение, не имеющее окончания во времени, развитие которого непредсказуемо для авторов, так как зависит от поступающих данных. С течением времени сообщение меняется в зависимости от того, какие данные поступают. Однако авторы дата-трекеров акцентировали внимание читателя на определенных показателях и переносили фактологическую информацию в аксиологическое поле.</p>
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    <p>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.</p>
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