Visualizing Nine Days In The Life Of The Global News Landscape
Earlier this week we visualized for the first time an entire day of global news coverage, including examining a sequence…
Good Authority: Why The U.S. Border Wall Is Getting More And More Popular
A look at how the US border is being covered in the media. Read The Full Article.
Visualizing An Entire Day Of Global News Coverage: Technical Experiments: PCA vs UMAP For HDBSCAN & t-SNE Dimensionality Reduction
This week's visualizations of an entire day of global news coverage were limited by one key factor: computational tractability. Even…
Wired: The UN Hired An AI Company To Untangle The Israeli-Palestinian Crisis
"Their idea for an AI program that models the belief systems that drive human behavior first began when Lane moved…
Putin On Russia's AI Investments From This Past July
This past July, Russian President Vladimir Putin had an exchange with Sberbank's CEO on Russia's AI investments that was covered…
Visualizing An Entire Day Of Global News Coverage: A First Experiment
Last week we visualized an entire day of television news coverage through the eyes of three channels in China, Iran…
Gender & Race Bias In Multimodal Image Embedding Models: A Case Study Of OpenAI's CLIP & How White Men Are Doctors & CEOs Not Black Women
Over the past few months we've documented innate existential racial and gender bias in many of the textual embedding models…
Experiment In At-Scale Visualizations Of News Coverage
Stay tuned for a series of experiments coming soon on visualizing and exploring the global news media landscape at scale.
A Python Notebook For Comparing Multimodal Image Embedders: OpenAI's CLIP Vs Google's Vertex AI
Over the past year we've explored multimodal image embedders through the eyes of both OpenAI's CLIP and GCP's Vertex AI…
A Dynamic Monitoring Method Of Public Opinion Risk Of Overseas Direct Investment – Based On Multifractal Situation Optimization
The negative public opinions and views on overseas direct investment (ODI) of a multinational enterprise (MNE) will damage the image…
A Comparative Three-Country Visualization Of One Day Of TV News Coverage: China, Iran & Russia Through Multimodal Embeddings
Lying at the heart of our series this week exploring the visual landscape of television news across the world has…
Comparing The Domestic & International Narrative Landscapes Of Iranian TV News Using Multimodal Image Embeddings
One of the most existential questions lying at the very heart of public interest international media scholarship is the question…
Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of A Second Iranian TV News Channel
Earlier this week we visualized a day of Iranian television news of the domestic Persian-language channel IRINN using multimodal image…
Comparing One Day Of TV News Coverage Through Multimodal Image Embeddings: China Vs Iran Vs Russia
Over the past two days we've mapped the visual landscape of a complete single day (October 17, 2023) of television…
Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of Chinese TV News
As we continue to explore how journalists and scholars can make sense of our ever more unstable world, we've examined…
Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of Iranian TV News
In a global world beset by an growing number of crises and conflicts, it is more important than ever for…
Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of Russian TV News
Yesterday we explored how, in an ever more unstable world, we can use multimodal image embedding models to cluster, search,…
Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Visualize, Cluster & Search The Visual Landscape Of A Russian TV News Broadcast
In this era of ever-growing crises across the world, how might machines help journalists and scholars look across the landscape…
How The World Covers Global Events: The Myriad Voices Of Planet Earth
One of the most powerful dimensions of GDELT is the way in which it makes it possible to look across…
The Web On Television: How Television News Turned To The Web Twenty Years Ago To Cover 9/11 Headlines
In a fascinating bit of history, look at how Greek television news turned to a sequence of screenshots of the…
WashPost: The Perils Of Never Questioning What Jim Jordan Says
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Jim Jordan. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: Transcribing The TV News Archive's 9/11 Global Television News Archive
Earlier this morning we announced that we have transcribed the first decade of the Internet Archive's TV News Archive. As…
Visual Explorer: The First Decade & 19M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp
We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive, the entire first decade (2001-2010) of…
Israel Has Largely Displaced Ukraine From Television News
Coverage of Ukraine has dramatically faded from television news, collapsing from hundreds of mentions a day to just a few…