[Air-L] new research tool for searching two million hours of television news

[kalev leetaru]

Apologies for cross-posting. I thought many of you might find of great
interest my latest collaboration with the Internet Archive - this time to
create a new research visualization tool that allows you to visualize two
million hours of television news programming spanning the last 7 years. In
particular, there are all kinds of fascinating questions that can be
explored here re how a topic is being discussed online versus on MSM
television news.

You can specify any keyword and/or context keywords (allowing you to run a
"near" search like "clinton NEAR email) and create a timeline charting by
day how it has appeared in American television news over time and what
networks focus the most on it.

Unlike the Archive's primary Television News interface, which returns
results at the level of an hour or half-hour "show," the interface here
reaches inside of those six years of programming and breaks the more than
one million shows into individual sentences and counts how many of those
sentences contain the given keyword. Thus, instead of reporting that CNN
had 24 hour-long shows yesterday that mentioned Donald Trump one or more
times, this tool counts how many sentences uttered on CNN yesterday
mentioned his name - a vastly more accurate metric for assessing media
attention.

CSV and JSON output are also available to make it easy to import the
timeline into the analytic package of your choice like R or simply Excel
for further analysis. More features will be coming over the next few months.


http://blog.archive.org/2016/12/20/new-research-tool-for-visualizing-two-million-hours-of-television-news/

http://television.gdeltproject.org/cgi-bin/iatv_ftxtsearch/iatv_ftxtsearch


Kalev
http://kalevleetaru.com/
http://blog.gdeltproject.org/