[Air-L] skimmable archive of belarusian, russian and ukrainian tv news

[kalev leetaru]

For those studying domestic narratives around the Russian invasion of
Ukraine or other questions around television news and its connection to
online news, we released earlier this month a collaboration with the
Internet Archive's Television News Archive around making their new
Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news archive "skimmable" at
scale:

https://blog.archive.org/2022/06/02/a-new-approach-to-understanding-war-through-television-news-introducing-the-tv-news-visual-explorer-amp-the-belarusian-russian-amp-ukrainian-tv-news-archive/

You can jump right to the TV Visual Explorer here, which now also includes
Al Jazeera English, BBC News London, DW English, Spanish-language
Telemundo, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and a growing collection of channels. We'll be
slowly expanding the channels back through time, but in the meantime, the
ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts are available back a decade
already:

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvv/tvv

We've been performing automated machine transcription of the Russian and
Ukrainian-language broadcasts:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/tv-visual-explorer-announcing-the-belarusian-russian-ukrainian-tv-news-archive-speech-recognition-transcript-collection/

To enable at-scale non-consumptive analysis, a ZIP file is available for
each broadcast with a preview image taken every 4 seconds (the same images
used in the thumbnail grids) that can be analyzed using OCR, logo detection
and other tools to perform at-scale analysis:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/more-tv-news-experiments-applying-ai-visual-analysis-ocr-to-television-news-via-non-consumptive-thumbnail-sheets/

You could use this approach to catalog the fascinating repurposing of
Western news by Russian television news channels to promote their
narratives:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/how-russian-television-news-uses-western-news-coverage-to-advance-its-narratives/

We also have analyzed selected complete broadcasts through video AI tools,
such as an episode of 1TV's new "Antifake" show:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/what-googles-video-ai-api-sees-in-a-russian-television-news-episode-of-antifake/

Kalev