Author: Kalev Leetaru
Spinmeisters Of China: The US Versus China On Iran & Middle East Diplomacy
China's CCTV-1 features a story about Iran-Saudi relations, presenting China as the new diplomatic power broker in the Middle East…
Spinmeisters Of China: The US Versus China In Afghanistan
China's CCTV-13 features a story contrasting the US withdrawal from Afghanistan with China's portrayal of its relations with the country,…
Visual Explorer: Transcribing Two Sample Chinese CCTV Broadcasts
To explore how our transcription and translation workflow functions on Chinese-language television news, we have transcribed and translated two Chinese…
Visual Explorer: Transcribing A Sample South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) Broadcast
As we continue to explore the frontiers of automatic transcription and translation of global television news, in collaboration with the…
Visual Explorer: China's CCTV-1 Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are excited to announce that China's CCTV-1 is now available…
Visual Explorer: China's CCTV-13 (CCTV News) Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are excited to announce that China's CCTV-13 (formerly CCTV News)…
Visual Explorer: OCR'ing A Year And A Half Of CSPAN Through Tesseract
The onscreen text of television news yields powerful insights into the content of their broadcasts, from identifying who is speaking…
WIDER: Welfare Losses, Preferences For Redistribution, And Political Participation
This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation—including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting—and the…
New Massive Face Analysis Dataset Of Russian TV News Coming This Week
Stay tuned this week for a massive new dataset enabling fundamentally new kinds of facial analysis of Russian television news.
Visual Explorer: Two Chinese CCTV Channels Coming Next Week
Next week two Chinese CCTV channels (CCTV-1 and CCTV-13) will be joining the Visual Explorer! Stay tuned!
Impressions On The Argentine Economy Based On GDELT
An analysis of the Argentine economy that relies on indicators from GDELT. Read The Full Article.
More Experiments With OCR: CSPAN Dataset Coming Next Week
Stay tuned for a large new experimental dataset applying the open source Tesseract OCR package to a year and a…
The Corner: Global Trends In Countries’ Perceptions Of Belt And Road Initiative
An analysis of global coverage of the Belt and Road Initiative. Read The Full Article.
Experiments With Television News OCR: Tesseract Vs Cloud Vision
Television news across the world (though not in all countries) often contains significant amounts of onscreen text, from contextualizing chyrons…
Mentions Of Freedom Increase Steadily Since 2021 With Fox In The Lead
As the Biden campaign emphasizes the theme of "freedom" in its messaging, how have the terms "freedom" and "freedoms" been…
Exploring Xenophobic Events Through GDELT Data Analysis
This study explores xenophobic events related to refugees and migration using the GDELT 2.0 database and APIs through visualizations. We…
The Impact Of Russia's 2022 Invasion Of Ukraine On Public Perceptions Of EU Security And Defence Integration: A Big Data Analysis
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through Europe and led to rapid policy changes concomitant with variations in…
WashPost: Clarence Thomas's Ethics Are Not The Supreme Court's Only Problem
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of the Supreme Court. Read The Full Article.
WashPost: Here's How Right-Wing Media Shields Trump From His Scandals
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of Trump. Read The Full Article.
The Erdogan Heart Attack Rumor On Social Vs Mainstream Media: The Perils Of Prioritizing Speed Over Verification
One of the most-touted aspects of social media when it comes to realtime global warning is its claimed ability to…
Experiments Using ChatGPT + Wikipedia For Media Cataloging
ChatGPT offers a general purpose summarization and Q&A workflow that can be applied to any textual input sources, with especial…
WashPost: Why Are Americans Shooting Strangers And Neighbors? 'It All Goes Back To Fear'
The Washington Post today includes a brief analysis of television news coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: New Face Detection Experiments Coming Soon
Stay tuned for a series of massive new face detection experiments coming in the next few weeks!
FiveThirtyEight: The Real Reason Presidential Candidates Form Exploratory Committees
FiveThirtyEight includes an analysis of media coverage of presidential candidates via the TV Explorer. Read The Full Article.