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Two Massive New Face Analyses Of Russian TV News Coming This Weekend

Stay tuned for two powerful new facial analyses of Russian television news using our massive new dataset.

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A Massive New Year-Long Face Detection Dataset Over Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian TV News: Who Is Telling The Invasion Story?

Today we are excited to announce a massive new dataset applying open source facial detection tools to a quarter-billion seconds…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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!

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Impressions On The Argentine Economy Based On GDELT

An analysis of the Argentine economy that relies on indicators from GDELT. Read The Full Article.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.