2015 ← Saatviga Sudhahar

Coverage of science in the media 2

Mar

9

2015

The contents of English-language online-news over 5 years have been analyzed to explore the impact of the Fukushima disaster on the media coverage of nuclear power. This big data study, based on millions of news articles, involves the extraction of narrative networks, association networks, and sentiment time series. We gathered over 5 million science articles between 1st May 2008 and 31st December 2013. In order to examine how different science-based issues and events are framed by ...

Modular systems for annotation of news articles 4

Feb

9

2015

This study was part of the CompLACS project and the goal was to develop a platform to test algorithms and concepts, and to inspire new algorithms and concepts, within the domain of composing learning systems. One of the four scenarios identified within this goal was “Annotation of News Articles”. This scenario is centered around building modules for the ‘Articles’ blackboard (collection of news articles) that annotate items with descriptors such as tags and fields, that ...

Big Data analysis of the 2012 US presidential elections

Feb

1

2015

The American presidential elections are among the most interesting campaigns because of the sheer amount of resources deployed and the influence of the United States on global governance. This study presents a large-scale analysis of mass media coverage of the 2012 US presidential elections, combining automatic corpus linguistics methods and network analysis to obtain a network representation of the entire campaign coverage by the news media. Mapping the full extent ...