Arab Spring, Spanish Revolution, and Occupy Movement: Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverage

Arab Spring, Spanish Recolution, and Occupy Movement:Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverageAnalyzing newspapers front pages vs TwitterPablo Rey Mazón Internacional Communication AssociationVisiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab Phoenix, AZ. May 25th 2012Contact: pablo@meipi.com | numeroteca.org More info and all the images at:Twitter: @numeroteca http://PageOneX.com

May 15th, 2011 Madrid

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15M- Indignados May 15th – June 19th, 2011

http://numeroteca.org/?p=1356Twitter and Newspaper Front PagesOccupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011

http://numeroteca.org/?p=1356Occupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011

Analyzing front pages: Shortcut

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News evolution in timeHaiti earthquake. January, 2010

News evolution in timeJapanese Tsunami. January, 2010

% 125cm²Using percentage to compare data

Number of articles in the front page of mainSpanish and US newspapersSpainEl País 7.5El Mundo 7.5ABC 4.5La Vanguardia 5.1La Razón 4.9Público 4.6Average 5.7USAWSJ 34.8 (28.0 short-small headlines)The Washington post 13.1The New York times 15.5The Boston Globe 17.7 (9.2 short-small headlines)USA Today 13.0Los Ángeles Times 9.7Average 17.3 (11.1 )

Two countriesCoveragecomparison Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami

Japanese Tsunami – Arab SpringSpanish newspapers. Spanish newspapers January, 2010

NATO & War in Lybia Japanese Tsunami – Arab SpringSpanish newspapers. Spanish newspapers January, 2010

1 1One at a time

Compare simultaneous news evolution in timeArab Spring: Egipt, Lybia, Syria. January, 2011

15M Movement– DSK arrest. Spanish newspapers May, 2011

Compare asynchronous news evolution in time Haiti Earthquake – Japanese Tsunami.

Next steps-Tool for crowdsourced analysis: PageOneX.com-Scraping from newspaper web sites (now front pages areFrom kiosko.net)-Interactive design-Use more variables: position, number of words,image, headline size, frame of the news, content, by line.-Integration with other news streams and analytic tools: TV broadcast, Media Meter, Twitter

PageOneX.comOpen source projectSummer 2012

Compare with other media-TV Broadcast transcripts-Radio transcripts-Web front pages-Social Networking Sites: Twitter

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Mixed data analysis: Trayvon MartinComparison: Twitter / Front pages / Signatures

Twitter data Gathering, comparative methodshttp://www.numeroteca.org/12m15m

PageOneX.com@numeroteca

http://numeroteca.org	615
http://civic.mit.edu	71
http://civicmedia.collected.info	33
http://montera34.org	20
http://www.twylah.com	8
http://nyc.mitef.org	8
http://www.onlydoo.com	1
http://www.s-y-n.com	1

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