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Ranking the 2020 Democratic Candidates by Media Coverage

As the 2020 presidential race moves toward the fall, how do the candidates who appeared in the second Democratic debate…

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Explainable AI Could Help Us Audit AI Startup Claims

As “explainable AI” approaches become steadily more robust, what if companies were asked to subject their AI creations to algorithmic…

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As Search Engines Increasingly Turn To AI They Are Harming Search

As search engines depreciate traditional raw “search” in favor of AI-assisted navigation, the concept of informational access is being harmed…

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From Company Doctors To Fitness Trackers And Big Data

As companies increasingly turn to fitness trackers, data brokers and other sources to monitor their employees' health in real-time, Silicon…

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It Is Only A Matter Of Time Before Governments Control Our Smart Homes

Once our homes are fully wired and remote controllable, it is almost inevitable that regulators will push for the ability…

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From Cyberspace To Independence Square: Understanding The Impact Of Social Media On Physical Protest Mobilization During Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution

This analysis examines the impact of social media on protest mobilization: Cyberspace has dramatically affected social and political movements over…

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From Infallible Computers To Infallible AI & Data As Truth

The dawn of the digital era brought with it the public idea of computers as infallible data processing machines. Today…

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Digital Assistants Could Learn A Lot From Reference Librarians

Digital assistants are promoted as providing American society for the very first time with their own personal research assistants, but…

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Could Public Reference Librarians Help Us Combat Digital Falsehoods?

Could the answer to today’s deluge of digital falsehoods lie with our nation’s public libraries and their reference librarians that…

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UCSB: The Moral Mind

A fascinating look at how UCSB researcher Rene Weber and his lab are using GDELT to explore the moral foundations…

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Announcing The Campaign 2020 Media Dashboard

Today we are excited to announce the release of the Campaign 2020 Media Dashboard! In collaboration with the Internet Archive's…

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FiveThirtyEight: Elizabeth Warren Is Attracting More Supporters And More Media Attention

FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

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GDELT Summary Now Supports Raw Result Counts

GDELT Summary now supports the DOC 2.0 API's new raw result counts in both summary and comparison modes!

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GDELT 2.0 API Now Supports Raw Result Counts

The DOC 2.0 API now supports a new "TimelineVolRaw" mode that reports the actual number of articles per time interval…

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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…

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WashPost: It's The Mainstream Anti-Immigration Rhetoric, Not The Extreme, That's Shaping American Politics

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of immigration and shifting rhetoric. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: The Two Trumps On Display: Social Media Agitator, Reshaper Of Government

The Washington Post's Philip Bump references media trends in television news coverage of President Trump. Read The Full Article.

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Politico: 'Everyone Owes Robert Mueller A Dinner … For All Of This'

Politico Magazine uses the Television Explorer to reference the volume of television news coverage dedicated to the Mueller investigation. Read…

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FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?

FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

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NYTimes: How The El Paso Killer Echoed The Incendiary Words Of Conservative Media Stars

The New York Times references trends in anti-immigrant rhetoric using the TV Explorer. Read The Full Article.

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Twitter's Ban of McConnell Shows Tech's Censorship Power

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign was locked out of its own Twitter account Wednesday for sharing a cellphone video…

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How Fast Do People Speak On Television News?

What can a decade of closed captioning tell us about how fast people really speak on average on the news?…

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Charting The Emotions Of Television News: A Look At A Decade Of Anxiety In The News

From audiovisual television to textual closed captioning to non-consumptive word histograms to final sentiment analysis we can explore our journalistic…

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Charting The Emotions Of Television News: BigQuery + TV NGrams

The new Television News Ngram Datasets make an incredible range of new analyses possible. With just a single line of…