skimmable archive of belarusian, russian and ukrainian tv news
For those studying domestic narratives around the Russian invasion of Ukraine or other questions around television news and its connection to online news, we released earlier this month a collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive around making their new Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news archive "skimmable" at scale: https://blog.archive.org/2022/06/02/a-new-approach-to-understanding-war-thro... You can jump right to the TV Visual Explorer here, which now also includes Al Jazeera English, BBC News London, DW English, Spanish-language Telemundo, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and a growing collection of channels. We'll be slowly expanding the channels back through time, but in the meantime, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts are available back a decade already: https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvv/tvv We've been performing automated machine transcription of the Russian and Ukrainian-language broadcasts: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/tv-visual-explorer-announcing-the-belarusian-r... To enable at-scale non-consumptive analysis, a ZIP file is available for each broadcast with a preview image taken every 4 seconds (the same images used in the thumbnail grids) that can be analyzed using OCR, logo detection and other tools to perform at-scale analysis: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/more-tv-news-experiments-applying-ai-visual-an... You could use this approach to catalog the fascinating repurposing of Western news by Russian television news channels to promote their narratives: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/how-russian-television-news-uses-western-news-... We also have analyzed selected complete broadcasts through video AI tools, such as an episode of 1TV's new "Antifake" show: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/what-googles-video-ai-api-sees-in-a-russian-te... Kalev
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