More info and all the images at: http://numeroteca.org Read the post: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages Abstract Social media (SM) like Twitter and Facebook seem to be playing an important role in the current wave of social movements around the globe, from the so-called Arab Spring to the Occupy movement in the US. Social media have become also a key source of information for many people, as well as for Mainstream Media (MSM), whose strategies of communication have changed to incorporate this social component. The streams of information flow rapidly from SM to MSM and back again, MSM to SM, re-feeding the loop. The project focuses its analysis in newspapers’ front pages as an concrete example of the MSM ecology. We will study the relationship between SM -with data from Twitter- and the coverage in newspapers regarding recent social movements: the Arab Spring (Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Argelia), the 15-M Movement #SpanishRevolution (Spain) and the Occupy movement (USA). The data visualizations try to interpret the spread of news in contemporary society; moreover, they map the dialogic intersections of the ‘hidden and public’ transcripts.

1. Analyzing newspapers' front pages
and other media streams
December 14th 2011
More info and all the images at: Introduction to Civic Media
numeroteca.org MIT Medialab
Related post: Pablo Rey Mazón
http://civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages @numeroteca

7. Uses
Evolution of news in time.
Compare simultaneous news evolution in time.
Compare asynchronous news evolution in time.
Semantic analysis of news content in front pages.
Compare with other media streams.
Compare with social media, such as Twitter.

8. Evolution of news in time

11. Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami

12. Compare simultaneous news evolution in time

14. Compare asynchronous news evolution in time

15. Semantic analysis of news content in front pages

17. Image from
http://zavekainfografica.blogspot.com/2011/05/grafico-para-descubrir-manipulaciones.html
Content analysis

18. Compare with other media
-TV Broadcast transcripts
-Radio transcripts
-Web Front pages
-Twitter

19. Twitter & Front pages

25. Now
Tool to generate array of front pages (built in Processing).
Generates .svg file.
Next steps
Analysis of specific cases.
Plugins for inkscape generate charts from surface.
Integration with other news streams and analytic tools:
TV broadcast, Media RDI, Media Cloud.
Surface vs Position, number of words, image, headline size
Scraping from original newspaper sites.
Interactive graph.
Future
Mechanical turk?

26. Skecth for online front page tagging tool