MediaMeter: Dashboard
What have you seen in the news this week? And what did you miss? Are you getting the blend of local, international, political, and sports stories you desire? We’re building a media-tracking platform to...
View ArticleScore Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere...
Media Cloud is pleased to announce the publication of Score Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate: In this paper we study the...
View ArticleCFP: Media Cloud Data Challenge!
Call for Proposals – Media Cloud Data Challenge: “Cloud-y with a Chance of Data” Submission Deadline: May 19th, 2015 Why head to the beach when you could spend this summer investigating a novel data...
View ArticleData Challenge Update
Winners will be announced on May 26. We are happily overwhelmed by the number of excellent proposals for our data challenge, so we are pushing the announcement of winners back to Tuesday, May 26. On...
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Improved Dashboard: Multiple Searches
With the latest round of improvements to the Media Meter Dashboard, you can now compare several Media Cloud searches at once! We’ve entirely redesigned the search interface. The new carousel-style...
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Investigating this Year’s ‘Snowpocalypse’
This past winter, the east coast of the United States was hit hard by several consecutive heavy snow storms, including one colloquially known as Winter Storm Juno. While many cities were severely...
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New Tool: Sources
Today we’ve released a small new tool to help you explore the MediaCloud database – Sources. With Sources you can explore our media sources, sets, and lists. This lets you easily do things like see...
View ArticleDashboard updated to v1.15.0
We just released a new version of the Dashboard tool. This update (version 1.15.0) is mostly small tweaks and bug fixes. Here’s a list if you are curious: An assortment of bug fixes use asset...
View ArticleSummer Data Challenge Presentation
We invite the public to the MIT Center for Civic Media this Monday, August 24, from 4:00 – 5:30 for a presentation of the results of our summer data challenge. In April, we announced our summer data...
View ArticleDashboard updated to v1.15.1
We just released a new version of the Dashboard tool. This update (version 1.15.1) fixes problems folks were having with downloading a CSV of the story urls matching your query. Now all the story...
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Dashboard Updated to v1.16.0
We just released a new version of the Dashboard tool. This update (version 1.16.1) adds a bunch of new features: it now shows a heatmap of countries mentioned for certain sources you can use a color...
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Bridges or Hate-Links? The Meaning of Common Links in Media Conflict
By Alyssa Smith and Nathan Matias When groups have strong disagreements online, we tend to worry about echo chambers — the possibility that each group is having conversations that are isolated from...
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Moral Foundations in Partisan News Sources
This post is the first in a series that will present work done by participants of the Media Cloud Summer Data Challenge this past summer. Moral Foundation Theory Although almost everyone agrees that...
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Politics Not Patients
This post is the second in a series that will present work done by participants of the Media Cloud Summer Data Challenge this past summer. Politics Not Patients By Katie Ida and Julia Wejchert When it...
View ArticleHiring a Technical Lead
Come help us build the next generation of tools to collect and understand online media coverage about issues that matter! Our MediaCloud project is hiring a Technical Lead to shape both the concept and...
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Dashboard Updated to v1.16.2
We just released a new version of the Dashboard tool. This update (version 1.16.2) adds one small feature – the ability to export your search as a Solr query for use on the . Click on the new sharing...
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Sources Tool Updated to v1.2.0
We just released a new version of the Sources tool. This update (version 1.2.0) helps you assess the health of any particular source. You can see we’re doing well in our coverage of the New York Times,...
View ArticleAPI updates – media health and story counting
We have added a couple new end points to the api and removed some others: New endpoints api/v2/mediahealth/list – Return information about the health of a media source, meaning to what degree we are...
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Sources Tool Updated (v1.4.0)
We just released a new version of the Sources tool. This update (version 1.4.0) gives you a better sense of the type of coverage for each media source or set. It shows you a geographic heat map...
View ArticleSources Tool Updated (v1.6.0)
We just released a new version of the Sources tool. This update (version 1.6.0) makes it easier to jump to queries on the Dashboard. You can click the big “Search Now” button to jump to a search of...
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