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Media Cloud project tracks stories, blogs, sources
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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society reports it has partnered with Thomson Reuters on a research project it’s calling the “Media Cloud.”
The Harvard University-based organization said Media Cloud will take the form of a website (mediacloud.org) that will track the flow of online media using Thomson Reuters’ Calais semantic technology.
The website is intended to determine what types of stories are covered by certain media sources, where news stories originate, what parts of the world attract attention and which do not, what role reader comments play in setting the news agenda and how the blogosphere’s coverage compares to traditional media coverage. The service will scan news outlets and automatically tag people, places, companies, facts and events for comparison to other media sources. Users will be able to query this dynamic catalog and generate revealing visualizations to show, for instance, how sources cluster or diverge, where new news stories come from and what new media flows are emerging.
The website was developed by Berkman fellow Ethan Zuckerman and faculty co-director Yochai Benkler, who wanted to determine whether the blogosphere created mostly original content or added to the work of traditional media.
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