Arab Spring, Spanish Revolution, and Occupy Movement: Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverage

Pablo Rey MazónVisiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab

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Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter

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Arab Spring, Spanish Recolution, and Occupy Movement: Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverage

Internacional Communication Association Phoenix, AZ. May 25th 2012

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15M- Indignados May 15th – June 19th, 2011

Twitter and Newspaper Front PagesOccupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011

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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

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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

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Open source projectSummer 2012

Compare with other media

-TV Broadcast transcripts-Radio transcripts-Web front pages-Social Networking Sites: Twitter

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Mixed data analysis: Trayvon MartinComparison: Twitter / Front pages / Signatures

Twitter data Gathering, comparative methodshttp://www.numeroteca.org/12m15m

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