News on the same event can be quite diverse, depending on the position they were written from. Annexation or liberation? Terrorist or freedom fighter? Peace mission or aggressive war? The framing of news is a matter of position – political, ideological, cultural and geographical. Even in the presumably pluralistic Europe certain events are predominantly discussed under surprisingly uniform perspectives. News consumers become aware of this only, if they compare news written in regions with different geopolitical positions. But news publishers from the Arabian world, Latin America, Japan, India, countries of the former USSR, and from many other regions are hardly perceived by news readers in the global west.
Internet users can theoretically find the most diverse and relevant articles on any topic that is discussed worldwide, but practically this is hard to do, even for professional journalists. The Global News Diversifier (GND) wants to change this. It aims to generate a compilation of the most diverse news articles on any current topic.
This mockup illustrates the user experience. A real demo will be available in summer 2018.
Under the hood runs a permanently updated database of news articles on any current topic. The articles are clustered according to the event or the topic they talk about. Then our diversification algorithm identifies the set of most diverse articles within each cluster.
Some foundations of the GND are researched, developed and designed in a project at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in a collaboration of the Faculty of Design and Art (Kris Krois) and the Faculty of Computer Science (Mouna Kacimi), in partnership with Prof. Klaus Gasteier (University of Art, Berlin), Daniel Murcia (Arillo GmbH) and ANSA (the italian news agency). It is based on the Semantic Media Browser (demo: www.aflow.tv for movies & TV series).
Our aim is to develop a functional prototype and deliver a proof of concept within march 2018. The PoC will be the starting point for a bigger follow up project, where we will go deeper of specific issues, especially on the question how the manufacturing of news is influenced by the position they are written from (geopolitical, ownership, power relations, culture, etc). This needs to be modelled and applied.
We are looking for partners with profound expertise the geopolitical and cultural implications in news publishing worldwide, and for partners with knowledge about news publishers in all geopolitical regions. If you have this competence or are otherwise interested in collaborating please send an email to kris.krois@unibz.it.
Internet users can theoretically find the most diverse and relevant articles on any topic that is discussed worldwide, but practically this is hard to do, even for professional journalists. The Global News Diversifier (GND) wants to change this. It aims to generate a compilation of the most diverse news articles on any current topic.
This mockup illustrates the user experience. A real demo will be available in summer 2018.
Under the hood runs a permanently updated database of news articles on any current topic. The articles are clustered according to the event or the topic they talk about. Then our diversification algorithm identifies the set of most diverse articles within each cluster.
The Project
Some foundations of the GND are researched, developed and designed in a project at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in a collaboration of the Faculty of Design and Art (Kris Krois) and the Faculty of Computer Science (Mouna Kacimi), in partnership with Prof. Klaus Gasteier (University of Art, Berlin), Daniel Murcia (Arillo GmbH) and ANSA (the italian news agency). It is based on the Semantic Media Browser (demo: www.aflow.tv for movies & TV series).
Future Perspectives
Our aim is to develop a functional prototype and deliver a proof of concept within march 2018. The PoC will be the starting point for a bigger follow up project, where we will go deeper of specific issues, especially on the question how the manufacturing of news is influenced by the position they are written from (geopolitical, ownership, power relations, culture, etc). This needs to be modelled and applied.
Partners Wanted
We are looking for partners with profound expertise the geopolitical and cultural implications in news publishing worldwide, and for partners with knowledge about news publishers in all geopolitical regions. If you have this competence or are otherwise interested in collaborating please send an email to kris.krois@unibz.it.