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Articles tagged Erhardt Graeff (4)

John WihbeyMarch 3, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough”

Guessing the location of tweets without geolocation, tracking who’ll pay for online news, and the conditions that encourage learning on Facebook: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

How a crime becomes political: Trayvon Martin and the way different media co-create the news

A new paper out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Martin’s death was told — and evolved. Caroline O'Donovan

Matt StempeckMarch 20, 2013

Tracking memes across television news: A tool for analyzing how stories move through broadcast

Want to see when a story first reached national television news, or which network programs kept it in the limelight? This Ruby script can help.

Andrew PhelpsJune 20, 2012

From social-media soap operas to magic orbs: 22 future-of-news hacks you’ve never seen before

At this year’s MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, two back-to-back presentations wowed us with new ideas.