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Media and social media analysis

Tools and datasets that allow us to quantify and study how an idea, meme, or campaign moves through the media ecosystem. This work is important to understanding why we’re talking about certain stories, considering how news events are framed by competing actors, and thinking about our news blindspots that leave us uninformed on entire topics or parts of the world.

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#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection
justsecurity.org/74622/stopthesteal-timeline-of-social-media-and-extremist-activities-leading-to-1-6-insurrection

#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence...

Capitol Hill
Media and social media analysis, Timelines
Bipartisan Issue Tracker
polarizationlab.com/issue-tracker

Bipartisan Issue Tracker

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across pa...

Media and social media analysis, Filter bubble poppers
X (Twitter)
China Index 2021
china-index.io

China Index 2021

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼
Media, Media and social media analysis, Fight disinformation
bellingcat's Ukraine coverage
bellingcat.com/tag/ukraine

bellingcat's Ukraine coverage

Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine

Media and social media analysis, Investigative journalism tech, Media
Ukraine
Media Bias Chart
political-watch-oa.d1llfzwprjpx3u.amplifyapp.com

Media Bias Chart

análisis de 30 medios de comunicación en España

Madrid (Spain)
Media and social media analysis, Media, Data visualization
ActionSprout
actionsprout.com

ActionSprout

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

ActionSprout, Commercial Street, Bellingham, WA
The Tech, Media, Media and social media analysis
commercial
2020 Political Atlas
political-atlas.com

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

The Tech, Civic data, Data visualization
US Election 2020
Doublethink Labs
doublethinklab.org

Doublethink Labs

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and the...

Taipei City, Taiwan
Fight disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, Media and social media analysis
LINE
Medill Subscriber Engagement Index
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2021/10/27/index-launch/index.html

Medill Subscriber Engagement Index

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers...

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
Media, Media and social media analysis, Benchmarks
The Narrative Observatory
narrativeobservatory.org

The Narrative Observatory

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative p...

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
Civic data, Data science for social good, Big listening
TV News Archive and captions
archive.org/details/tv

TV News Archive and captions

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S

since 2012
Archives, Civic data, Media
Gephi
gephi.org

Gephi

Makes graphs handy

13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, France
since 2009
Civic data, Data visualization, Media
commercial
Harmony Labs
harmonylabs.org

Harmony Labs

Decoding Media's Social Effects

311 W 43 St, 12th fl New York NY
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Hyphe
hyphe.medialab.sciences-po.fr

Hyphe

France 🇫🇷
since 2010
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
The Observatory on Social Media
knightfoundation.org/grants/8238

The Observatory on Social Media

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
since 2019
Civic data, Data science for social good, Media and social media analysis
Voxe
voxe.org

Voxe

Chatbot to understand public debate

Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
ArchiveSocial
archivesocial.com

ArchiveSocial

Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency

212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701
since 2020
Archives, Bureaucracy tech, Civic data
Parli-N-Grams
parli-n-grams.puntofisso.net

Parli-N-Grams

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

since 2014
Big listening, Citizen science, Media
Democracy and Digital Media conference
media-in-transition-10.mit.edu

Democracy and Digital Media conference

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141
Conferences, In-person meetings, Media
PoliMonitor
polimonitor.com

PoliMonitor

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

TechHub London, Clere Street, London, UK
Big listening, Civic data, Media and social media analysis
Google Trends
trends.google.com/trends

Google Trends

Explore what the world is searching

Mountain View, CA
Listening, Media, Media and social media analysis
commercial, Google
Analysis of the Modern Media Ecosystem: An Open Toolkit
docs.google.com/document/d/1rM0FlvWVU-aFlSArt8xqC-jkZZ_NxXkNLSWkhhAPZyY/edit

Analysis of the Modern Media Ecosystem: An Open Toolkit

This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.

since 2011
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Sugarcube
gitlab.com/sugarcube/sugarcube

Sugarcube

Monoidal data sequences.

since 2013
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Media Cloud
mediacloud.org

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is an open-source platform for media analysis.

Cambridge, MA
since 2009
Advocacy tech, Big listening, Media
Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat/wiki

Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)

Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

since 2014
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
X (Twitter)
The Free Speech Project
freespeechproject.georgetown.edu

The Free Speech Project

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an onli...

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057
since 2017
Civic maps, Mapping, Media
democracy, free speech
The Absolute Denial of 💩
openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/07/the-absolute-denial-of-%F0%9F%92%A9

The Absolute Denial of 💩

Emoji as public awareness

Externalities of tech, Media and social media analysis
Social Scraper
social-scraper.netlify.com

Social Scraper

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦
since 2019
Advocacy tech, Media, Media and social media analysis
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
knightfoundation.org/grants/8235

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

Chapel Hill, NC
since 2019
Learn about civic tech, Media, Media and social media analysis
Google Analytics
analytics.google.com/analytics/web

Google Analytics

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

Mountain View, CA
Listening, Media, Media and social media analysis
commercial, Google
WhoAdvertisesOn
whoadvertiseson.org

WhoAdvertisesOn

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

Brooklyn, NY
Advertising, Advocacy tech, Civic data
Dangerous Speech Project
dangerousspeech.org

Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting fre...

since 2015
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
hate speech
Quid
quid.com

Quid

Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.

1 California St San Francisco, California 94111, US
Big listening, Media, Media and social media analysis
commercial
Attentive.ly
blackbaud.com/online-marketing/attentively

Attentive.ly

Harness the power of your social data.

Washington, DC
since 2012
Media and social media analysis, Organize campaigns
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity

The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
since 2019
Fight disinformation, Learn about civic tech, Media
Amnesty Decoders
decoders.amnesty.org

Amnesty Decoders

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

since 2016
Media and social media analysis, Pro bono and volunteer, Disaster response and humanitarian tech
human rights
Internews
internews.org

Internews

Internews, an international nonprofit organization, empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communi...

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC
since 1982
Hyperlocal news and citizen media, Media, Media and social media analysis
Ngram Viewer
books.google.com/ngrams

Ngram Viewer

Google Books Ngram Viewer

since 2010
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Rasm.io
rasm.io

Rasm.io

رسمیو(لیلاک سابق) موتور جستجوی اشخاص و شرکت‌ها است که بر مبنای آگهی‌های روزنامه رسمی کشور ایجاد شده است. رسمیو با تحلیل روزنامه رسمی کشور و ایجاد خروجی معنادار، دسترسی به اطلاعات شرکت‌های ایرانی را را...

Tehran
Advertising, Media, Media and social media analysis
BotOrNot
mikewk.shinyapps.io/botornot

BotOrNot

Estimates probability of a twitter account being a bot

since 2014
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Brandwatch Consumer Research
brandwatch.com/products/consumer-research

Brandwatch Consumer Research

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010
Artificial Intelligence, Big listening, Emerging tech
commercial
The Disinformation Report
web.archive.org/web/20200405203859/https://www.yonder-ai.com/resources/the-disinformation-report

The Disinformation Report

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

Fight disinformation, Media, Media and social media analysis
reports
The Center for Media Engagement
knightfoundation.org/grants/8233

The Center for Media Engagement

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

1918 F Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20052
since 2019
Media, Media and social media analysis
Center for Countering Digital Hate
counterhate.com

Center for Countering Digital Hate

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

London
Emerging Tech report orgs, Fight disinformation, Emerging tech
harassment, hate speech
Capitol Words
noblerate.com/electronics/accessories-parts

Capitol Words

since 2017
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Electome using Twitter firehose
medium.com/mit-media-lab/enter-the-electome-11ed325babcf

Electome using Twitter firehose

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
X (Twitter)
ZenCity
zencity.io

ZenCity

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

Tel Aviv, Israel
since 2015
Artificial Intelligence, Bureaucracy tech, Emerging tech
city, Sustainable cities and communities
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
web.archive.org/web/20220201234222/https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/hate-speech-measures-and-counter-measures

Hate speech: measures and counter-measures

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Tech Report Projects, Emerging tech
harassment, hate speech, racial equity
Swayable
swayable.com

Swayable

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which...

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2017
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
The Center for Social Media and Politics
knightfoundation.org/grants/8234

The Center for Social Media and Politics

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
since 2019
Learn about civic tech, Media, Media and social media analysis
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