arab spring, spanish revolution, and occupy movement: mainstream media vs social media coverage
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Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter. Panel at #ICA12.TRANSCRIPT
Pablo Rey MazónVisiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab
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Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter
http://PageOneX.com
Arab Spring, Spanish Recolution, and Occupy Movement: Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverage
Internacional Communication Association Phoenix, AZ. May 25th 2012
May 15th, 2011May 15th, 2011 MadridMadrid
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May 17th, 2011May 17th, 2011
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May 21th, 2011
15M- Indignados May 15th – June 19th, 2011
Twitter and Newspaper Front PagesOccupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011
http://numeroteca.org/?p=1356
Occupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011http://numeroteca.org/?p=1356
Analyzing front pages: Shortcut
Show me the data!
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News evolution in time
Haiti earthquake. January, 2010
Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010
News evolution in time
Using percentage to compare data
%125cm²
Number of articles in the front page of main Spanish and US newspapers
SpainEl País 7.5El Mundo 7.5ABC 4.5La Vanguardia 5.1La Razón 4.9Público 4.6Average 5.7
USAWSJ 34.8 (28.0 short-small headlines)The Washington post 13.1The New York times 15.5The Boston Globe 17.7 (9.2 short-small headlines)USA Today 13.0Los Ángeles Times 9.7Average 17.3 (11.1 )
Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami
Two countriesCoverage comparison
Spanish newspapers. Spanish newspapers January, 2010
Japanese Tsunami – Arab Spring
Spanish newspapers. Spanish newspapers January, 2010
Japanese Tsunami – Arab Spring
NATO & War in Lybia
One at a time
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Compare simultaneous news evolution in time
Arab Spring: Egipt, Lybia, Syria. January, 2011
15M Movement– DSK arrest. Spanish newspapers May, 2011
Compare asynchronous news evolution in time
Haiti Earthquake – Japanese Tsunami.
Next steps
-Tool for crowdsourced analysis: PageOneX.com
-Scraping from newspaper web sites (now front pages are From kiosko.net)
-Interactive design
-Use more variables: position, number of words, image, headline size, frame of the news, content, by line.
-Integration with other news streams and analytic tools: TV broadcast, Media Meter, Twitter
PageOneX.com
Open source projectSummer 2012
Compare with other media
-TV Broadcast transcripts-Radio transcripts-Web front pages-Social Networking Sites: Twitter
http://bit.ly/analyzemediatools
Mixed data analysis: Trayvon MartinComparison: Twitter / Front pages / Signatures
Twitter data Gathering, comparative methodshttp://www.numeroteca.org/12m15m
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