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TV News Coverage Of Immigration Falling Sharply Since Last Week
TV news coverage of immigration reached a fever pitch at the end of last week with the expiration of Title…
Inflation Continues To Fade On TV News But Remains Elevated On Business Channels
Mentions of inflation across television news have continued to fade since their July-August 2022 peaks, with general news channels showing…
WashPost: Tim Scott Is In A Better Position Than You Might Think
The Washington Post's David Byler includes an analysis of television news mentions of Tim Scott. Read The Full Article.
Homelessness Mentions Rise On TV News With Fox News Mentioning More Than CNN & MSNBC Combined
Mentions of homelessness first began to rise on Fox News in in 2018, surging in 2019 and has begun a…
WashPost: Donald Trump Is Endlessly Willing To Endorse Extrajudicial Violence
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes a link to the TV Explorer showing how often Trump has mentioned Jordan Neely….
Tracking Tucker Carlson Across A Year Of Russian Television News Totaling A Quarter-Billion Seconds Of Airtime
Yesterday we unveiled a massive dataset of 40 million faces that appeared on Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news over…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: From January 2022: "US Media Pushing Unfounded Claims Of Russia Preparing For Ukraine War"
The Internet Archive's TV News Archive's core Russian television news archive extends back to March and April 2022, capturing the…
WashPost: Trump Supporters Are Neither Underrecognized Nor Half The Country
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of television news mentions of Trump in today's analysis. Read The Full…
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.
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…
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…