WHIPLASH: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Antidisciplinary

MIT Media Lab Joi Ito

Promise Tracker

Civic Media: Between & Beyond Ethan Zuckerman

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Controversy Mapper Landscape Mapper

mediacloud.org

3.3 billion sentences275 million stories

8 years

5+/- 30 years of Civic Media Ethan Zuckernan

6+/- 30 years of Civic Media Ethan Zuckernan

Landscape Mapper

medical

relief

africa

texas

us politics

medical

relief

africa

texas

us politics

the electome where campaign journalism meets AI

The Electome does data analytics on the national conversation about the 2016 presidential election.

LSM has all election data from Twitter, news coverage from 30 major outlets and a rich database of polls.

Recently, the group built a dashboard so journalists can use Electome data to better understand and cover the campaign.

introducing the electome

the electome: fueling the “horse race of ideas” in the 2016 election

to what it’s being fought overfrom who’s winning & losing …

the platform: machine-driven mapping + analysis of election conversationFull Twitter Fire Hose [500m Tweets/day]

the platform: machine-driven mapping + analysis of election conversation30 Digital News Sites [5k-6k stories/day]

“tonar” — incivility index

Classification of uncivil Twitter election conversation

share of conversation among core issues

impact analysis — orlando shootings

Guns

LGBT

Terrorism

topic modeling and narrative development — immigrationTrump’s effect on immigration conversation Rise of “Wall” and “Deportation” narratives with Trump

words/actions

Correlated w/falloff in “Pathway to Citizenship”

issue association“Chat Scans” — Issue/Candidate

AssociationIssue/Exclusive Follower Association

moving beyond the electome …

Applying research approach to the “food” domain in a collaboration with Target

Enabling new forms – and, importantly, creators – of investigative and explanatory journalism …

… by democratizing access to powerful data mapping, analysis and visualization tools