Author: Kalev Leetaru
American Television News On Russian Television News: CNN, Bucha And "Fake News"
How did Russian television news frame the killing of civilians in Bucha? The sequence at the top of this page…
More TV News Experiments: Applying AI Visual Analysis & OCR To Television News Via Non-Consumptive Thumbnail Sheets
Could thumbnail contact sheets offer the possibility of non-consumptive visual assessment of television news, such as applying at-scale AI visual…
More Experiments With Visually Previewing The News: How The World Covered Covid-19 In May 2020
Last week we demonstrated how simple 4fps thumbnail contact sheets offer an incredibly powerful way of previewing unenriched television news,…
Media Matters: If You Are In Business With Fox News, You Are On The Hook For Its White Nationalism
Media Matters references the New York Times' Tucker Carlson analysis. Read The Full Article.
More Experiments With Visually Previewing The News: 1TV, NTV & RUSSIA1
Last week we demonstrated how simple 4fps thumbnail contact sheets offer an incredibly powerful way of previewing unenriched television news….
NYTimes: How 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Fuels Extremism And Fear
This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…
NYTimes: How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News – And Became Trump's Heir
This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…
NYTimes: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear To Conquer Cable
This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…
NYTimes: What To Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise
This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…
Bookcases Became The Iconic Imagery Of Pandemic-Era Television News
Bookcases became one of the most iconic images of pandemic-era television news as television hosts and their guests were suddenly…
Visually Surveying Unenriched Television News: Comparing Frame Sizes Across RUSSIA1
Earlier today we explored how thumbnail grids can be used to rapidly visually triage unenriched television news that lacks captioning,…
Experiments With FFMPEG & Scene Detection To Explore The Parallel Universe Of Russian State Television Channel RUSSIA1
There are many approaches to exploring television news that includes textual annotation metadata, from closed captioning to OCR-able onscreen text…
The Pandemic Pushed Crowds From Television News – The George Floyd Protests Brought Them Back
How often are crowds seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…
Reuters: Inflation Narrative A 'Virus' And Policy Headache
A Reuters wire story reports on research using GDELT to examine media coverage of inflation. Read the Full Article.
Fox News Shows Police Imagery Twice As Much As CNN
How often are police seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…
Masks Were Mentioned But Not Seen On Television News
How often are masks seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…
Video: Internet Archive: Library As Laboratory: Television As Data: Opening TV News For Deep Analysis And New Forms Of Interactive Search
The video of Kalev and Roger Macdonald's talk about how the ways in which the TV News Archive has become…
Internet Archive Blog: Library As Laboratory: Television As Data: Opening TV News For Deep Analysis And New Forms Of Interactive Search
The Internet Archive blog has a new article about Kalev and Roger Macdonald's, talk about how the ways in which…
Ukraine Continues To Fade On Television News
Ukraine continues to fade on television news. The timeline below shows total daily mentions of Ukraine across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and…
Can Social Media Combat Misinformation And Still Grow?
As social media platforms increasingly emphasize content moderation, “healthy conversations,” and combatting misinformation, the question of how such efforts will…
Crime Type Prediction In Saudi Arabia Based On Intelligence Gathering
This fascinating paper uses GDELT as a crime index dataset: One of the biggest social problems currently facing major cities…
Is The Era Of Mapping Twitter Coming To An End?
Is the era of mapping Twitter coming to an end? We've all seen maps like this, showing the world as…
MongoDB World Hackathon '22
MongoDB's World Hackathon 2022 features GDELT as one of the datasets for contestants to use and is centered on making…
Is Twitter A Conversation Or An Echo Chamber?
Is Twitter a conversation or an echo chamber? Is it a place people come to engage in discussions with one…