Digital Media Studies Working Group
The Digital Media Studies Working Group helps scholars at all levels apply computer-based techniques to advance research in media history and analysis. One ...
Projects by Category
Computational Journalism
Computational Framing Analysis
Media framing refers to the deliberate presentation of information in order to elicit a desired response or shift in reader’s attitude. While there is an ex...
ClaimViz: Visual Analytics for Fact-checking
Determining the veracity of a factual claim made by public figures, aka 'fact-checking', is a common task of the journalists in the newsrooms. One critical ...
BaitBuster
Social media sites like Facebook are popular platforms for spreading clickbait, links with misleading titles that do not deliver on their promises. Not only...
Towards a Sustainable Fact-checking Model
About 33% of all the fact-checking platforms are inactive because they couldn't sustain following the traditional operation model. Fact-checking is tied to ...
Designing Effective Health News
Mass media plays a central role in delivering science-based crisis, risk, and healthcare information to the general public. However, we have shown a gap bet...
Clickbait Detection
The term clickbait refers to a form of web content that employs writing formulas and linguistic techniques in headlines to trick readers into clicking links...
Social Media Sensing
Why Sexual Violence Victims Do Not Report?
Sexual violence is a serious problem across the globe. A lot of victims, particularly women, go through this experience.
The #MeToo Project
In October 2017, there happened the uprising of an unprecedented online movement on social media by people across the world who started publicly sharing the...