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Experiments With Television News OCR: Tesseract Vs Cloud Vision

Television news across the world (though not in all countries) often contains significant amounts of onscreen text, from contextualizing chyrons…

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Mentions Of Freedom Increase Steadily Since 2021 With Fox In The Lead

As the Biden campaign emphasizes the theme of "freedom" in its messaging, how have the terms "freedom" and "freedoms" been…

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Exploring Xenophobic Events Through GDELT Data Analysis

This study explores xenophobic events related to refugees and migration using the GDELT 2.0 database and APIs through visualizations. We…

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The Impact Of Russia's 2022 Invasion Of Ukraine On Public Perceptions Of EU Security And Defence Integration: A Big Data Analysis

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through Europe and led to rapid policy changes concomitant with variations in…

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WashPost: Clarence Thomas's Ethics Are Not The Supreme Court's Only Problem

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of the Supreme Court. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: Here's How Right-Wing Media Shields Trump From His Scandals

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of Trump. Read The Full Article.

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The Erdogan Heart Attack Rumor On Social Vs Mainstream Media: The Perils Of Prioritizing Speed Over Verification

One of the most-touted aspects of social media when it comes to realtime global warning is its claimed ability to…

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Experiments Using ChatGPT + Wikipedia For Media Cataloging

ChatGPT offers a general purpose summarization and Q&A workflow that can be applied to any textual input sources, with especial…

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WashPost: Why Are Americans Shooting Strangers And Neighbors? 'It All Goes Back To Fear'

The Washington Post today includes a brief analysis of television news coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: New Face Detection Experiments Coming Soon

Stay tuned for a series of massive new face detection experiments coming in the next few weeks!

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FiveThirtyEight: The Real Reason Presidential Candidates Form Exploratory Committees

FiveThirtyEight includes an analysis of media coverage of presidential candidates via the TV Explorer. Read The Full Article.

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Tesseract Versus Cloud Vision: More OCR Experiments Coming Next Week

Two and a half years ago we examined Tesseract 4.1.1's performance on OCR'ing television news onscreen text. Stay tuned for…

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WashPost: Why Russian TV Isn’t Tucker Carlson’s Dream Job

The Washington Post republished Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky analysis of Russian television news' interest in Tucker Carlson, including a brief summary…

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Bloomberg: Why Russian TV Isn’t Tucker Carlson’s Dream Job

Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky analyzes Russian television news' interest in Tucker Carlson, including a brief summary of just how extensively Carlson…

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İstanbul Gazetesi: GDELT Project Shows The Turkish Earthquake Was The Most Searched In The Last 20 Years

İstanbul Gazetesi covers Kalev's Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum talk. Read The Full Article.

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SarayMedya: GDELT Project Shows The Turkish Earthquake Was The Most Searched In The Last 20 Years

SarayMedya covers Kalev's Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum talk. Read The Full Article.

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Nasıl Bir Ekonomi: GDELT Project Shows The Turkish Earthquake Was The Most Searched In The Last 20 Years

Nasıl Bir Ekonomi covers Kalev's Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum talk. Read The Full Article.

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Anadolu Agency: Stratcom Photos

The Anadolu Agency has a gallery of wire photos of Kalev's talks from both this week's Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum…

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Gazete İlk Sayfa: Fahrettin Altun Spoke At The Disaster Communication Forum

Gazete İlk Sayfa covers the first day of the Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum. Read The Full Article.

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Bruegel: Global Trends In Countries’ Perceptions Of Belt And Road Initiative

Drawing on global media reports, we conduct a sentiment analysis of the image of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)…

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Stratcom Disaster Forum: First Day Roundup Video

Kalev's Stratcom Disaster Forum talk was featured in today's First Day roundup video: Cumhurbaşkanlığı İletişim Başkanlığımızca, “Hazırlık, Müdahale, İyileştirme” temasıyla…

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Video: Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum

Kalev spoke today on the use of AI and data-driven narrative analysis for realtime crisis communications at the Stratcom Disaster…

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Habertürk: GDELT Project Shows The Turkish Earthquake Was The Most Searched In The Last 20 Years

Turkish news outlet Habertürk covers Kalev's Stratcom talk. Read The Full Article.

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Haber1: GDELT Project Shows The Turkish Earthquake Was The Most Searched In The Last 20 Years

Turkish-language Haber1 covers Kalev's Stratcom talk. Read The Full Article.