analyzing newspapers front pages. presentation: intro civic media. dec 14th 2011

Analyzing newspapers' front pages

December 14th 2011Introduction to Civic Media

MIT MedialabPablo Rey Mazón

@numeroteca

and other media streams

More info and all the images at:numeroteca.orgRelated post:http://civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages

UsesEvolution of news in time.

Compare simultaneous news evolution in time.

Compare asynchronous news evolution in time.

Semantic analysis of news content in front pages.

Compare with other media streams.

Compare with social media, such as Twitter.

Evolution of news in time

Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami

Compare simultaneous news evolution in time

Compare asynchronous news evolution in time

Semantic analysis of news content in front pages

Content analysis

Image from http://zavekainfografica.blogspot.com/2011/05/grafico-para-descubrir-manipulaciones.html

Compare with other media

-TV Broadcast transcripts-Radio transcripts-Web Front pages-Twitter

Twitter & Front pages

NowTool to generate array of front pages (built in Processing).Generates .svg file.

Next stepsAnalysis of specific cases.Plugins for inkscape generate charts from surface.Integration with other news streams and analytic tools: TV broadcast, Media RDI, Media Cloud.Surface vs Position, number of words, image, headline sizeScraping from original newspaper sites.Interactive graph.

FutureMechanical turk?

Skecth for online front page tagging tool