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

Media Cloud is an open-source media research project, enabling the study of news and information flow globally. The project is administered as a consortium collaboration between the Media Ecosystems Analysis Group, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Northeastern University. It was originally incubated at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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12/12/2023

How the news talked about the Israel-Hamas conflict in its first month

7/27/2023

CUNY Community Media Explorations

Media Cloud has partnered with the City University of New York’s Center for Community Media on several different media analysis projects in recent years, producing insightful and relevant findings on community-level media ecosystems.

5/11/2023

RedditMap.Social: A novel map of Reddit based on user clustering

The University of Massachusetts Amherst part of our team, within the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, set out to explore a different type of media ecosystem through mapping the social media platform Reddit. This endeavor is a part of a long-standing project, supported by the Knight First Amendment Foundation, to map the wide landscape of all social media online.

10/27/2022

Capturing News Hyperlinking Practices at Scale: A global computational study of hyperlinking within news production

Media Cloud’s data and tooling provides a perfect opportunity to study global trends in news production. For this study, we were particularly interested in hyperlinking practices in news, and how they differed in different media markets globally.

Analysis and visualization tools

Our open-source analysis tools are built on top of our global news database of over 1 billion stories. The tools allow for the aggregation, analysis, delivery, and visualization of information, providing insights into complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the media.