Tracking Country Mentions Using Television Ngrams: China vs Russia
Yesterday we announced the Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset. How might we use this dataset to track how often countries…
“Social Distancing” Disappears From News During Protests But Begins Reappearing
The phrase “social distancing” leapt into the television news lexicon from around Feb. 26 and became a household name from…
“Doomscrolling” Entered The Media Lexicon In March
The phrase “doomscrolling” has emerged to describe the intersection of psychological and technical processes that cause us to fixate on…
Announcing The Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset
Last year we unveiled the television news ngram dataset, a compilation of 30-minute word frequency histogram tables of unigrams and…
Trump's Tweets Capture Media Attention Again After Fading From Prominence
Last fall we looked at how often Donald Trump's tweets had been cited in the world's news media from 2016…
Kommersant: Obamagate Returns With Renewed Vigor
Today's Kommersant has an article that references GDELT's analysis of television news coverage. Read The Full Article.
Pandemic to Protests: Coverage Shifted But Outlooks Didn’t
After three months of wall-to-wall television coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost overnight the live infection dashboards and often-uttered phrases like “social…
Using BigQuery DML & External Temporary Tables To Perform Realtime Reformatting Inserts For Television News Ngrams
As we prepare to release the 2.0 release of our television news ngrams dataset, a guiding design goal has been…
Omdena: Artificial Intelligence For Environmental Sustainability: Connecting Land Conflicts And Policies
The United Nations' Convention To Combat Desertification discusses Omdena's AI challenge around "Artificial Intelligence For Environmental Sustainability: Connecting Land Conflicts…
After Two Months CNN Drops Covid-19 Dashboard To Focus On Protests
For two months, CNN’s Johns Hopkins-sourced Covid-19 infections and death count dashboard has been an ever-present fixture of its coverage,…
The Protests Have Completely Displaced Covid-19 On TV News But Not Online News
Television news offers one of the most powerful lenses through which to understand agenda setting due to its fixed airtime…
Depictions Of Police And Military Soar On TV News With Fox Leading
Police and military forces have become an ever-present visual metaphor of the protests on television news. Using Google’s Cloud Video…
Depictions Of Crowds Soar On TV News
Crowds largely disappeared from television news by mid-March as Covid-19 social distancing rules went into effect across the country. However,…
Television News Mentioned Protests This Weekend More Than Past Decade
The protests of the past week received more television news mentions this weekend across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News than…
How The Media Is Framing The Protests: “Peaceful” Gatherings Versus “Violent” “Looters”
What is the language the media is using to describe the national (and now global) protests sparked by the death…
Antifa’s Rise On Television News
The Antifa movement rose to television news prominence in August 2017, with spikes in August and October 2018 and July…
The Language Of Covid-19: Lockdowns, Masks, Reopening And Social Distancing
Among the concepts and terms Covid-19 has ushered into household status are lockdowns, N95 masks, economic “reopenings” and the idea…
The Very Different Media Coverage Of Shelley Luther’s Versus Elon Musk’s Reopenings
Shelley Luther is the Dallas hair salon owner who was arrested and sent to jail for reopening her salon in defiance of…
When Did The Term “Covidiot” Come Into Being?
The term “covidiot” came into being in March as a catch-all description of those who willfully ignored health authority guidance…
Historic SpaceX Launch Got Just Fraction Of Covid-19 Coverage
As SpaceX this weekend became the first private company to put humans into space and inaugurated a new era in…
Axios: Protest Coverage Dwarfs Coronavirus
Axios notes that television news coverage of the protests has exceeded that of Covid-19 and notes how the visceral visual…
Is It “Covid” Or “Coronavirus” In The Media?
Axios noted recently that in Google searches, “coronavirus” had collapsed to less than a quarter of its peak, placing it just above…
Coverage Of George Floyd Protests Eclipsed Covid-19 Coverage Yesterday
Online US news coverage of the George Floyd protests eclipsed coverage of Covid-19 yesterday, as seen in the timeline below,…
A Week When Social Media Showed Its True Face
Last week Silicon Valley reminded the world just how much control it now wields over the national discourse. On Tuesday,…