Reap the Wild Wind: Detecting Media Storms in Large-Scale News Corpora

arXiv:2404.09299v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Media Storms, dramatic outbursts of attention to a story, are central components of media dynamics and the attention landscape. Despite their significance, there has been little systematic and empirical research on this concept due to issues of measurement and operationalization. We introduce an iterative human-in-the-loop method to identify media storms in a large-scale corpus of news articles. The text is first transformed into signals of dispersion based on several textual characteristics. In each iteration, we …

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