page_title: Media Cloud
section_title: References
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caption_attribution_description: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, 23 Everett in Cambridge, Mass., USA
context_page_description: Media Cloud is an open-source content analysis tool that aims to map news media coverage of current events. It "performs five basic functions -- media definition, crawling, text extraction, word vectoring, and analysis." Media cloud "tracks hundreds of newspapers and thousands of Web sites and blogs, and archives the information in a searchable form. The database ... enable[s] researchers to search for key people, places and events — from Michael Jackson to the Iranian elections — and find out precisely when, where and how frequently they are covered." Media Cloud was developed by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and launched in March 2009. It's distributed under the GNU GPL 3+.
  As of October 2011, Media Cloud tracks news from mostly U.S. sources. It "collects news stories" in sets from:
  "Top 25 mainstream media sources from the U.S. according to the Google Ad Planner service"
  "1000 most influential U.S. political blogs according to Technorati"
  "1000 most popular feeds in Bloglines"
  "All public feeds from whitehouse.gov"
context_section_description: Media Cloud. About Archived 2012-09-08 at Archive.today. Retrieved 2011-10-12
  Patricia Cohen. "Hot Story to Has-Been: Tracking News via Cyberspace." New York Times, August 5, 2009
  Berkman Center. Media Cloud. Retrieved 2011-10-12
  Alisa Miller. Media Makeover: Improving the News One Click At a Time. TED Books, 2011
  https://github.com/berkmancenter/mediacloud#user-content-license
  Media Cloud. Media sets. Retrieved 2011-10-12
  Zuckerman, Ethan. "Media Cloud, Relaunched". Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  Beckman Center for Internet and Society. "New Publication: "Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere : Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate"". Harvard University. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  Wang, Shan (6 June 2016). "This new collaboration hopes to aid the endless debates about media with some actual hard data". NiemanLab. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Plous, Scott (1993). The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. p. 233.
  sdf (24 June 2004). "John Gorenfeld, Moon the Messiah, and the Media Echo Chamber". Daily Kos. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Eördögh, Fruzsina (25 November 2014). "Gamergate and the new horde of digital saboteurs". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Tufekci, Zeynep (28 March 2014). "Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls". arXiv:1403.7400 [cs.SI].
  Smith, Alyssa; Nathan Matias (4 November 2015). "Bridges or Hate-Links? The Meaning of Common Links in Media Conflict". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-britney-spears-problem/1
  Ethan Zuckerman. "About the Center for Civic Media". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Ethan Zuckerman (26 August 2015). "Understanding Media Coverage: Seven Summer-Long Experiments With Media Cloud". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Ethan Zuckerman (30 October 2015). "Can innovators build a future that's both disruptive and just?". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Benkler;  et al. (July 2013). "Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate". SSRN 2295953. 
  Burch, Audra D. S.; Laura Isensee (March 22, 2012). "Trayvon Martin: a typical teen who loved video games, looked forward to prom". The Miami Herald. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
  Graeff, Erdhaert; Matt Stempeck; Ethan Zuckerman (17 January 2014). "The Battle for 'Trayvon Martin': Mapping a Media Controversy On- and Offline". First Monday. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Caroline O'Donovan (14 February 2014). "How a crime becomes political: Trayvon Martin and the way different media co-create the news". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  "Charlie Hebdo attack: Three days of terror". 14 January 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Donnelly, Elizabeth (13 January 2015). "Boko Haram massacre: 7 questions worth asking". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Zuckerman, Ethan (13 January 2015). "Media coverage of Charlie Hebdo and the Baga massacre: a study in contrasts". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Lannon, Robert; apendleton (2 September 2014). "What can we learn from 800,000 public comments on the FCC's net neutrality plan?". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Faris, Robert;  et al. (February 2015). "Score Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate" (PDF). Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Emma Henderson (20 December 2015). "Nirbhaya Case: Anger and widespread protests as juvenile Delhi gang rapist freed after three years in reform centre". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Anushka Shah (10 December 2015). "This Is What's Wrong With How The Indian News Reports Women's Issues". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Zuckerman, Ethan (24 August 2015). "Digital Media and Ghana's Place on the Global Stage". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  Kelsey, Alley (27 November 2016). "Today's social media and its impact on society". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
caption: Berkman Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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