Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter. Panel at #ICA12.

1. 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
Contact: pablo@meipi.com | numeroteca.org More info and all the images at:
Twitter: @numeroteca
http://PageOneX.com

2. May 15th, 2011 Madrid

3. May 16th, 2011

4. May 16th, 2011

5. May 17th, 2011

6. May 17th, 2011

7. May 18th, 2011

8. May 18th, 2011

9. May 19th, 2011

10. May 19th, 2011

11. May 21th, 2011

12. 15M- Indignados May 15th – June 19th, 2011

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

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

18. Analyzing front pages: Shortcut

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20. News evolution in time
Haiti earthquake. January, 2010

21. News evolution in time
Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010

22. %
125cm²
Using percentage to compare data

23. 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 )

24. Two countries
Coverage
comparison
Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami

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

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

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One at a time

28. Compare simultaneous news evolution in time
Arab Spring: Egipt, Lybia, Syria. January, 2011

30. 15M Movement– DSK arrest. Spanish newspapers May, 2011

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

32. 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

33. PageOneX.com
Open source project
Summer 2012

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

46. http://bit.ly/analyzemediatools

47. Mixed data analysis: Trayvon Martin
Comparison: Twitter / Front pages / Signatures

48. Twitter data Gathering, comparative methods
http://www.numeroteca.org/12m15m

50. PageOneX.com
@numeroteca