Event flow - How events shaped the flow of the news, 1950-1995

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2021
Host editors
  • M. Ehrmann
  • F. Karsdorp
  • M. Wevers
  • T.L. Andrews
  • M. Burghardt
  • M. Kestemont
  • E. Manjavacas
  • M. Piotrowski
  • J. van Zundert
Book title Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021
Book subtitle Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021
Series CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Event 2021 Conference on Computational Humanities Research, CHR 2021
Pages (from-to) 62-76
Number of pages 15
Publisher Aachen: CEUR-WS
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract

This article relies on information-theoretic measures to examine how events impacted the news for the period 1950-1995. Moreover, we present a method for event characterization in (unstructured) textual sources, offering a taxonomy of events based on the different ways they impacted the flow of news information. The results give us a better understanding of the relationship between events and their impact on news sources with varying ideological backgrounds.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/long_paper16.pdf
Other links http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989 https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85118855018
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