Author: Kalev Leetaru
The Quarterly Journal Of Economics: AI-tocracy
Recent scholarship has suggested that artificial intelligence (AI) technology and autocratic regimes may be mutually reinforcing. We test for a…
Visual Explorer: 236,000 Broadcasts Totaling 1.1 Billion Words Now Available For Belarusian, Iranian, Russian And Ukrainian TV News
In January we provided a step-by-step tutorial for how to download the machine transcriptions and translations of the 2022-present Belarusian,…
Visual Explorer: A Decade Of Russia Today Transcripts Now Updating Live
Last month, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we announced the availability of 117,500 complete Russia Today broadcasts spanning July…
Luba Kassova: On IWD News Coverage Of Gender Equity Issues Peaks By X7 The Average
Luba Kassova created this powerful timeline of media coverage of gender equity issues. Despite feminists' concerns that IWD ghettoizes societal…
Tracking Inflation Interest Across Search, Online & Television News
Looking at global search interest 2004-present of inflation via Google Trends, we can see that interest has been remarkably stable…
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Disapproval Of Military Support For Ukraine On Russian TV
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (MTG) disapproval of military support to Ukraine remains popular on Russian state television, such as this…
PressGazette: UK News Coverage Of Women-Focused Issues Down A Fifth In Five Years
This powerful analysis by Luba Kassova examines gender-related terms in journalism. Read The Full Article.
Brookings: Television As Data: Opening The Internet Archive’s Two Decade Archive Of Global Television News Spanning 50 Countries To Journalists & Scholars Through AI, Analytics, Search & Visualization
Kalev spoke at the Brookings Institution this afternoon, surveying GDELT's various datasets and especially its new collaborations with the Internet…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Claims Of Zelensky Body Doubles
A brief story on Russia 24 today put forth the claim that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has actually spent the…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian Media Airs Chinese CGTN Story Claiming US Responsible For Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion
Russian media today aired a China state network CGTN mini documentary claiming the US was responsible for destroying the Nord…
Visual Explorer: Live Russia Today Transcripts Coming Next Week
Next week we will finally be releasing live Russia Today transcripts – keep an eye here on the blog for…
Behind The Scenes: GCP Logging & Network Intelligence Topology Mapping
Planetary-scale systems like GDELT leverage the full capability of the modern cloud to move enormous volumes of data across the…
University Of Miami: Google Developer Student Club
Kalev spoke today to the University Of Miami's Google Developer Student Club on GDELT and applying multimodal AI to understand…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Claims Of Chemical Agents From Drones
On February 6th, on a day in which Russian TV news coverage was dominated by reports of the massive earthquakes…
Despite The Attention In Some Quarters, Fetterman Isn't Being Mentioned Much On TV News
Despite some quarters of the political spectrum fixating on John and Gisele Fetterman, neither is receiving much attention on television…
Who Protests Whom In Challenges To The Liberal International Order? Liberalization, Economic Deprivation, And The Targeting of Political And Economic Actors At World Heritage Sites
A new study by researchers at the Copenhagen Business School, Duke University and Wharton School explores protest activity: We empirically…
Visual Explorer: Biden's February 21st Speech Now Available In The Visual Explorer
The Internet Archive continues to archive a range of content documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine to preserve this history-defining event…
Visual Explorer: Putin's February 21st Speech Now Available In The Visual Explorer
The Internet Archive continues to archive a range of content documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine to preserve this history-defining event…
Putin's February 21st Speech On Russian Television News
Russian President Vladimir Putin's address on February 21st was carried live across Russian television news – you can see how…
The Indian Express: From China To India, US: Media Coverage During Covid-19 Reveals The Power Of Controlling Narrative
At the beginning, the average global media coverage was negative. In the next six months, there was a rapid divergence….
Tracking Military Imagery Trends Over A Year Of Russia TV News' 60 Minutes
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive we unveiled a new analysis earlier this morning in which we…
Visual Explorer: 1957 Newsreel – "The UN Condemns Russia"
With yesterday's availability of a small selection of historical newsreels in the Visual Explorer in collaboration with the Internet Archive,…
Worldwide Media Visibility Of NATO, The European Union, And The United Nations In Connection To The Russia-Ukraine War
This article presents a theoretical and descriptive account of the worldwide media visibility of NATO, the European Union, and the…
Cataloging The Core Visual Narratives Of A Year Of Russia 1's "60 Minutes" Using YOLOv8's Pretrained Image Classifier
Last year, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we demonstrated using the open source YOLO object detection package to analyze…