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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…

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Visual Explorer: Historical News Reels Selection

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we continue to explore how the Visual Explorer's unique visual interface metaphor of "skimmable…

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Visual Explorer: World War II US War Department Films Selection

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we continue to explore how the Visual Explorer's unique visual interface metaphor of "skimmable…

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New York Times: What Fox News Hosts Said Privately Vs. Publicly About Voter Fraud

The New York Times embedded numerous clips from the Internet Archive's TV News Archive today in an article tracking the…

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Visual Explorer: Computer Chronicles 1982-2002 Archive Now Available

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we are excited to announce today that the complete 1982-2002 archive of the phenomenal…

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One Year Anniversary Of Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Yields Little Media Or Search Interest

The one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine yielded only a small bump in media coverage of the war on…

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Fox News Dominates Coverage Of East Palestine On TV News

Fox News was the first to surge coverage of the train derailment in East Palestine and has continued to cover…

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Tracking A Year Of Tucker Carlson On Russia 1's "60 Minutes"

Last year, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we demonstrated applying face tracking to Russian television news…

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GTRL: An Entity Group-Aware Temporal Knowledge Graph Representation Learning Method

Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) representation learning embeds entities and event types into a continuous lowdimensional vector space by integrating the…

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Visual Explorer: Net Cafe 1996-2002 Archive Now Available

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we are excited to announce today that the complete 1996-2002 archive of the incredible…

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EUobserver: How Ukrainian Women's Stories Became Forgotten By The Media

A fascinating article in EUobserver today by Luba Kassova examines how the story of the Ukraine invasion is being told…

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WashPost: How A Train Derailment In East Palestine Turned Into A Right-Wing Cause

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the East Palestine train derailment. Read The Full Article.

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EU Climate Change News Index: Forecasting EU ETS Prices With Online News

Carbon prices have been rapidly increasing in the EU since 2018 and accurate forecasting of EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)…

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Global Media Coverage Of The Turkish Earthquake At Two And A Half Weeks

How have the global media continued to cover the Turkish earthquake at the 2.5-week mark? Global mentions of the earthquake…

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Visual Explorer: A Decade Of Russia Today Transcripts For Narrative Analysis

We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we are making…

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The Politics of Rejection: Explaining Chinese Import Refusals

Health and safety standards offer a convenient means by which governments can credibly claim to be protecting the population, even…

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Visual Explorer: New Russian TV News Transcript Collection Announcement Tomorrow

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement tomorrow about a massive new Russian television news transcript archive!

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Visual Explorer: Announcing The January 6th Committee Video Collection

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we're excited to announce today that the video portions of the Archive's January 6th…

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Spinmeisters Of Iran: Becoming A High-Power Industrial Laser Exporter In The Face Of Sanctions

An interesting story on Iranian state television channel IRINN today tells the story of how Iran, dependent on foreign countries…

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"Cold War" Rising On TV News

BBVA's Alvaro Ortiz charts how the "Cold War" is rising again on TV news. View The Full Tweet.

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ChatGPT In News Coverage & Search

Global online news coverage mentioning ChatGPT begins on November 30th and picks up sharply from December 4th, then enters a…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarizing Russian Television News – Asking ChatGPT To Explain "60 Minutes"

As part of our ongoing ChatGPT experiments, we explored using cascading summarization to distill a 2.5-hour episode of Russia 1's…

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ChatGPT Experiments: When Russian Television News Triggers An OpenAI "Content Policy Violation"

As we continue our ChatGPT experiments, in one experiment today we were using ChatGPT to summarize a Russian news broadcast…

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What Does It Mean To Be A Google Developer Expert (GDE)?

Its really about inspiring others. Its really about pushing the boundaries of what's possible. View Video.