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'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed Often Omitted the Title

A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal sparked a heated debate over the use of the title “Dr.” by…

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"We/Us" Versus "I/Me" On BBC Radio 4 FM 2016-2020

How often does radio news talk about "me" versus "we"? Using data from the Internet Archive's Radio News Archives via the Radio…

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Comparing "I/We" On Television Versus Radio News

Earlier this year we looked at ingroup/outgroup discourse on television news, looking at the density of pronouns across the major…

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News Media Bias And Why Its Poorly Understood

This interesting analysis by Kent Kroeger looks at media tone and coverage of Trump vs Biden in the 2020 election….

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Comparing BBC Television & Radio News Attention Towards COVID-19 Across 2020

This past September we compared the percentage of daily spoken words across BBC News London (TV), BBC World Service and…

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Using FFMPEG To Measure Audio Levels On Television News

What audio levels do television news channels use? There are long-established standards for television production, but what levels are observed…

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Using FFMPEG's BlackDetect & ShowSpectrumPic To Coarsely Align Closed Captioning Through Audio Analysis

Closed captioning in television news programming typically lags the actual spoken word content it transcribes by several seconds as the…

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Using FFMPEG's Scene Detection To Generate A Visual Shot Summary Of Television News

The first step in breaking a television news broadcast down into "stories" is to segment it into distinct visual "scenes"….

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Using FFMPEG's "BlackDetect" Filter To Identify Commercial Blocks

A common methodology for detecting commercials in television news is to scan for the tell-tale "fade to black" used to…

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A Vision For A Multidisciplinary Covid-19 Communication & Behavioral Research Initiative And Incubator To Combat Misinformation

What might it look like to construct a research initiative and incubator that would support collaborative multidisciplinary multimodal research into…

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Understanding Television News Through Onscreen Text OCR

While much of the work on television news has focused on speech recognition and caption search, through the Visual Global…

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Using Tesseract To OCR Television News: A Case Study Of CNN & Bloomberg News

How accurate is the open-source tesseract OCR package on television news and could it be used to recover a reasonable…

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Distilling Issue Cycles From Large Databases: A Time-Series Analysis Of Terrorism And Media In Africa

This analysis uses GDELT as a source for issue cycle media analysis around terrorism events in Africa: Analyzing issue cycles…

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Fear-Anger Cycles: Governmental And Populist Politics Of Emotion

A new research initiative by Jorg Friedrichs and Niklas Stoehr at Oxford University is comparing tweets and news coverage from…

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CJR: MSNBC Public Editor: Why The Show Must Not Go On

CJR's MSNBC Public Editor Maria Bustillos used the TV Explorer to track mentions of "corrupt republicans" and "corrupt democrats" on…

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An Example Of Using The New Television News Advertisement Inventories To Filter A News Broadcast

Earlier this week we announced the forthcoming release of a new dataset inventorying all of the advertising airtime in the…

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Research At Archives Scale

As part of our incredible ongoing research collaborations with the Internet Archive, we frequently work at collections scale, running complex…

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'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed Often Omitted the Title

Last week an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein provoked a heated debate over the use…

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Learning from History: Modeling Temporal Knowledge Graphs With Sequential Copy-Generation Networks

This interesting analysis uses GDELT as a source temporal knowledge graph: Large knowledge graphs often grow to store temporal facts…

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Global Embedded Metadata Graph Updates And Backfile Coming Soon

A number of our announced updates to the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, including automatic JSON-LD correction and enhanced handling of…

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High Resolution Advertisement Exclusion Inventories Coming For Television News

When exploring datasets like the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0, one key challenge in interpreting the results lies in being…

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A Glimpse Behind The Scenes At How We Perform Mass Ingest And Transformation Workflows In the Cloud

How do we orchestrate our mass ingest and transformation workflows when performing some of our largest analyses? Once data is…

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Climate Change Soars Back Onto Television News

Climate change all but disappeared from television news in early March as the pandemic spread, but since August has been…

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CNN Mentions Death More Than 2.5x MSNBC And Fox News Combined This Year

Fox News received criticism yesterday for failing to devote substantial airtime to recent increases in Covid-19 deaths. Yet how does its lack…