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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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Whatsapp Link Extractor

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

Global Media and Internet Concentration Project

Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries.

The Public Good Projects

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

Filling the Progressive TikTok Gap

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

Los Desinformantes

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

WhatsApp archiver

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.

A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo

A project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa

Media Mapping

Media Mapping

United States of America (the)

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

River Sentiment Dashboard

River Sentiment Dashboard

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia

The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.

Civic Signal

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

The Citizen Browser Project

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.

Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

The Social Media Tracking Centre

The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).

Widely Viewed Content Dashboard

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

Medill Subscriber Engagement Index

Medill Subscriber Engagement Index

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA

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 benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

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 practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

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. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!

Harmony Labs

Harmony Labs

311 W 43 St, 12th fl New York NY

Decoding Media's Social Effects

Gephi

Gephi

13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, France

Makes graphs handy

Media Cloud

Media Cloud

Cambridge, MA

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

Botcheck.me

Botcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.

Parli-N-Grams

Parli-N-Grams

Parliament Square, London, UK

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

PoliMonitor

PoliMonitor

TechHub London, Clere Street, London, UK

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

Democracy and Digital Media conference

Democracy and Digital Media conference

42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

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

The Observatory on Social Media

The Observatory on Social Media

107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

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

ArchiveSocial

ArchiveSocial

212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701

Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency

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