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Media Cloud research tool from Harvard's Berkman Center uses OpenCalais to surface media trends

Submitted by KristaThomas on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 11:27.
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Just a quick heads-up on Media Cloud, a new free service from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  It uses the Calais Web service to make it easy to identify trends in online media.
 
Found at http://www.MediaCloud.org, Media Cloud offers a way to quantitatively examine complex questions about the shape and flow of news coverage in the Internet era, such as:
 
·        What types of stories are covered by which media sources? 
 
·         Where do particular news stories begin? 
 
·         What areas of the world garner attention, and which do not?
 
·         How does the blogosphere's coverage of an issue compare to the mainstream media? 
 
·         What role do comments and other participatory channels on the Web play in setting the news or political agenda? 
 
Check it out and let us know your thoughts.
 
It's now in beta, but Media Cloud will evolve over the next few months to offer more and more data visualization tools that make it easy to compare trends in coverage, etc.
 
Best,
-Krista
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Ethan Zuckerman's blog and a video interview re: Media Cloud

To read more about Media Cloud, you can check out Berkman Center Fellow Ethan Zuckerman's blog and his interview with the Nieman Journalism Lab.

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/11/introducing-mediacloud/

-Krista The OpenCalais initiative


KristaThomas Wed, 03/11/2009 - 15:31