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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
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us politics
medical
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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