Arab Spring, Spanish Recolution, and Occupy Movement:
Mainstream Media vs Social Media coverage
Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter
Pablo Rey Mazón Internacional Communication Association
Visiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab Phoenix, AZ. May 25th 2012
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May 15th, 2011 Madrid

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May 21th, 2011

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

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Twitter and Newspaper Front Pages
Occupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011

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Occupy September 17th – December 15th, 2011

Analyzing front pages: Shortcut

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Show me the data!

News evolution in time
Haiti earthquake. January, 2010

News evolution in time
Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010

%
125cm²
Using percentage to compare data

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

Two countries
Coverage
comparison
Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami

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

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

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One at a time

Compare simultaneous news evolution in time
Arab 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 are
From 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.com
Open source project
Summer 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 Martin
Comparison: Twitter / Front pages / Signatures

Twitter data Gathering, comparative methods
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