Author: Kalev Leetaru
A 3.5 Year 634-Million Article Historical Backfile For The Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary
We announced yesterday that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary was now a part of GCAM and being applied to all…
Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) Added To GCAM!
We're excited to announce today that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) is now available in GCAM as of today!…
Medium: Why Have Americans And The News Media Lost Interest In The Coronavirus Pandemic?
This fascinating Medium post explores media coverage and Google Trends search interest in the Covid-19 pandemic with some interesting conclusions….
Exponential Family Tensor Completion With Auxiliary Information
This paper by two researchers at Fudan University explores tensor completion: Tensor completion is among the most important tasks in…
University de Montemorelos: Application of Data Science to Discover Violence-Related Issues in Iraq
This paper explores various classification algorithms applied to understanding violent social issues in Iraq. Data science has been satisfactorily used…
Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: Quadgrams & 5-Grams Now Available!
Last week we unveiled the new Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset of word frequency ngrams in unigram, bigram and trigram…
Graph Hawkes Neural Network For Forecasting On Temporal Knowledge Graphs
Zhen Han (LMU Munich & Siemens AG), Yuyi Wang (ETH Zurich), Stephan Gunnemann (Technical University of Munich) and Volker Tresp…
Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.7 Billion Entries
The Global Geographic Graph released in April has now reached 1.7 billion entries! Learn More.
Trump’s Television Mentions Lowest Since Fall 2015
The sweep of Covid-19 across the country has displaced mentions of Donald Trump on television news in a way no…
Russia Finally Fades From The News After Eight Years
For almost the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency, Russia has loomed large, a steady fixture on television news. While coverage…
TV News Rapidly Ramps Back Up Covid-19 Coverage
Television news largely abandoned its Covid-19 coverage to go all-in in covering the George Floyd protests, but as the media…
CNN’s Covid-19 Health Dashboard Making A Comeback Post-Protests
As CNN joined its peers in wall-to-wall coverage of the George Floyd protests, its Covid-19 dashboard that had run for…
Climate Change – On The Rise Since Mid-2018 – Hits 3.5-Year Low
The “climate crisis” has been surging steadily upwards in global media attention since mid-2018, but shifting global attention to Covid-19…
Dr. Fauci Disappears From Television News
Dr. Fauci has been perhaps the most prominent representative of the US Government’s Covid-19 response, appearing daily on television news…
The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development And Applications Of A Crowd-Sourced Approach To Extracting Moral Intuitions From Text
The full paper behind the eMFD dictionary! Read The Full Paper.
A Semantic Network Approach To Measuring Sentiment
A fascinating paper by researchers at UIC, UCSB and Wayne State University, using GDELT's Covid-19 television news snippets dataset to…
Protest TV Coverage: Spectacle of 'What' Outweighs the 'Why'
As the nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s death have ebbed and the scenes of militarized police clashing with protesters…
ABC: How Cable News Is Talking About The Protests – And Why It Matters
ABC published this video by FiveThirtyEight looking at how cable news covered the George Floyd protests. Watch The Full Video.
Acute Crisis Fading, Attention Returns To The Chronic One – Though Less So From Trump
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at how television news have covered the events of 2020, from Covid-19 to the…
FiveThirtyEight: National Media Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Had Fallen During The Trump Era – Until Now
FiveThirtyEight explores media coverage of the BlackLivesMatter movement. Read The Full Article.
JOC: Dynamic Transactions Between News Frames and Sociopolitical Events: An Integrative, Hidden Markov Model Approach
This fascinating paper in the Journal of Communication by Frederic Hopp, Jacob Fisher and Rene Weber explores the link between…
Pandemic Pulse: Unraveling And Modeling Social Signals During The COVID-19 Pandemic
This informative analysis by students at the Center for Network and Data Science at the University of Notre Dame explores…
Inequality Makes A Comeback On Television News
Mentions of “inequality” and “unequal” increased substantially on television news from Oct. 2011 through Apr. 2016, but as the 2016…
Climate Change Activist Greta Thunberg Fades From Media
She once accounted for as much as 1% of worldwide news coverage, but as Covid-19 has caused climate change to…