Author: Kalev Leetaru
Associations Between Emotions Expressed In Internet News And Subsequent Emotional Content On Twitter
We report on the first investigation of large-scale temporal associations between emotions expressed in online news media and those expressed…
WashPost: What Does 'Woke' Mean? Whatever Ron DeSantis Wants.
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of "woke" on cable news. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: New Visual & Textual Analysis Tools Coming This Month
Last month we unveiled the Visual Explorer Channel Comparer tool to automate the process of generating side-by-side comparisons of television…
More YOLO Demos Coming Later This Month
Stay tuned for some additional YOLO demos coming later this month, showcasing the power of off-the-shelf object detection when coupled…
Video: STRATCOM Summit 2022 In Istanbul
Kalev gave the first talk today at the incredible Stratcom Summit 2022 in Istanbul. Featuring a stage like no other,…
Tomorrow: STRATCOM Summit 2022 In Istanbul
Kalev will be giving Talk #1 at the STRATCOM Summit 2022 in Istanbul tomorrow! Stay tuned for what will be…
Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG) Reaches 990 Million Articles
The Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG) has now reached 990 million articles! Learn More.
WashPost: Nick Who? Fox News Has Barely Mentioned The Nick Fuentes-Trump Dinner
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines coverage of the Trump-Fuentes & Ye dinner. Read The Full Article.
Daily Beast: The Kremlin Loved Tucker Carlson's Diesel Doomsday Bullsh*t
The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona examines Russian media coverage of Tucker Carlson's claims of impending diesel fuel shortages. Read The…
November Roundup Of Television News Tools & Datasets
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we've been rolling out a flood of new tools and datasets…
WashPost: Another Fox News-Driven Target Of Likely GOP Probes: 'Looting'
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of looting. Read The Full Article.
This Friday: STRATCOM Summit 2022 In Istanbul
Kalev will be giving Talk #1 at the STRATCOM Summit 2022 in Istanbul this Friday! Stay tuned for what will…
Tracking Infections, Death & Vaccination Over The Covid-19 Pandemic Using NGrams & BigQuery
How can the Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset be used to extract and track trends in numeric quantities? For example,…
The Data Show Twitter Is Far From Dying
As #RIPTwitter trends and the media is awash with coverage lamenting the site’s apparently imminent demise, a look at the…
Cataloging Two Weeks Of Russia 1 Using Visual Explorer + YOLOv5 Object Detection
Yesterday we demonstrated applying the YOLOv5x pretrained COCO model to a single Russian television news broadcast. Today we are going…
Nature Scientific Reports: Improving Urban Flood Resilience Via GDELT GKG Analyses In China's Sponge Cities
Urban floods are the most severe disaster in most Chinese cities due to rapid urbanisation and climate challenges. Recently, media…
RT Versus Fox News On The Ottawa Trucker Convoy
This Mastodon thread by Caroline Orr Bueno traces the interplay between Fox News and Russia Today's coverage of the Ottawa…
Visual Explorer + YOLOv5 To Catalog Objects In A Russian TV News Broadcast
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a popular and widely-used open object detection toolkit that is both extremely fast and…
Media Reporting On Terror Fuels School Dropout
An article in today's Kenyans.co.ke edition covers how media reporting of terror attacks on schools in Kenya is negatively impacting…
Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset Reaches 300 Billion Entries
The Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset has reached 299.9 billion entries! See our tutorials roundup from this past January for glimpses at…
BBVA: Iran Social Unrest Infographic
BBVA examines media coverage of the Iranian protests in this infographic. See The Full Infographic.
Today: MEDIT Open Seminar At Tallinn University
Kalev is speaking today at Tallinn University on the power of television news data, visual analytics and AI along with…
Economic Uncertainty Through Television News: November 2022
Economic uncertainty is a closely watched metric by economists. Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom & Davis have constructed simple narrative indicators of…
WashPost: Despite The Midterms And A Mass Shooting, Trans People Remain A Target
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media framing of transgender people. Read The Full Article.