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"Us" Versus "Them" On TV News: How Mueller Forever Fractured The News And COVID-19 Only Briefly Brought Us Back Together

One of the ways social scientists examine group dynamics in the media is to examine latent framing in the form…

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Television News Pronouns: How The Pandemic Changed "I/Me" Versus "Us/We"

How often does television news refer to "i" and "me" (the anchor, interviewee or guest referring to themselves) versus "us"…

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Monkeypox & Disease Early Warning: Planetary-Scale Anomaly Detection With Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery

From capturing the first flickers of 2014's Ebola outbreak to powering one of the earliest alerts of the Covid-19 pandemic,…

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Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev will be speaking alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks, Research…

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Coming Soon: The GDELT Video Series

In the coming weeks we'll be unveiling a tremendously exciting new content series of short and long form videos exploring…

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Tracking socio-economic activities in European countries with unconventional data

This paper by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) explores GDELT as an unconventional dataset for societal…

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TV Visual Explorer: Republic of Congo's Télé Congo

The Republic of Congo's Télé Congo is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe,…

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Timeseries Insights API + BigQuery + Translate + Web NGrams = Monkeypox Early Warning Demo Coming This Week

Stay tuned for a really exciting new demo coming later this week using the GCP Timeseries Insights API, BigQuery, Google…

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TV Visual Explorer: Sudan State TV

Sudan State TV is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…

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Pakistan Is Already Fading From The News

Despite killing more than 1,191 people, the floods in Pakistan have quickly faded from television news. Overall, they received fairly…

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TV Visual Explorer: Southern Sudan Television

Southern Sudan Television is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…

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Online And Business TV News Coverage Of Inflation Leveling Off

Unlike general television news coverage of inflation, which has followed four stages, business television news coverage of inflation took off…

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TV Visual Explorer: United Arab Emirates' Sharjah TV

The United Arab Emirates' Sharjah TV is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe,…

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Inflation Mentions On TV News Have Risen In Four Stages Since Last Year

Since the start of the pandemic, mentions of inflation followed four stages, each time surging and then leveling off at…

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TV Visual Explorer: Portugal’s RTP Internacional (RTPi)

Portugal’s RTP Internacional (RTPi) is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East…

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Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset Reaches Quarter-Trillion Entries

The Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset has reached 283 billion entries! See our tutorials roundup from this past January for…

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Experiments In Scanning Russian Television News For Fox News Clips

Yesterday we showcased how Google's Cloud Vision API could be used to rapidly and non-consumptively annotate a television news broadcast…

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TV Visual Explorer: Palestinian Satellite Channel

Palestinian Satellite Channel is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…

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Using Visual Explorer & Google's Cloud Vision API To Non-Consumptively Annotate A Russian Television News Broadcast

What would it look like to use the latest neural computer vision approaches to non-consumptively scan global television news and…

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TV Visual Explorer: Jordan TV

Jordan TV is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and Africa…

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TV News Visual Explorer: TV Rain Archive Reaches 45,874 Broadcasts

After unveiling the new Internet Archive Television News Archive's TV Rain Archive in the TV News Visual Explorer two weeks…

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Measuring News Media Sentiment Using Big Data For Chinese Stock Markets

We construct and assess new time series measures of news media sentiment based on Global Data on Events, Location, and…

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AI Challenges: Speech Recognition In Multilingual Societies: From Multiple Languages To Code Switching

Earlier today we released an early experiment applying Google's Speech-to-Text API's speech recognition to the 18 sample broadcasts from our…

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How Google's Speech To Text API Hears Television News From Around The World

With the release of the new EMEA Television News Archive on Monday, we wanted to explore how well state-of-the-art speech…