iCoRe: The GDELT Interface for the Advancement of Communication Research

Hopp, Frederic R.; Schaffer, J.P.; Fisher, James F.; Weber, René

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“…We utilized the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT; to acquire Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of articles from our chosen sources with at least 500 words (for an accessible introduction to GDELT, see Hopp, Schaffer, Fisher, and Weber (2019). Various computationally derived metadata measures were also acquired, including the topics discussed in the article.…”

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The extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text

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Moral intuitions are a central motivator in human behavior. Recent work highlights the importance of moral intuitions for understanding a wide range of issues ranging from online radicalization to vaccine hesitancy. Extracting and analyzing moral content in messages, narratives, and other forms of public discourse is a critical step toward understanding how the psychological influence of moral judgments unfolds at a global scale. Extant approaches for extracting moral content are limited in their ability to capture the intuitive nature of moral sensibilities, constraining their usefulness for understanding and predicting human moral behavior. Here we introduce the extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD), a dictionary-based tool for extracting moral content from textual corpora. The eMFD, unlike previous methods, is constructed from text annotations generated by a large sample of human coders. We demonstrate that the eMFD outperforms existing approaches in a variety of domains. We anticipate that the eMFD will contribute to advance the study of moral intuitions and their influence on social, psychological, and communicative processes.Recent work suggests that morally-laden messages play an instrumental role in fomenting moral outrage online (

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“…GDELT's Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) connects the people, organizations, locations, themes, numbers, images and emotions into one holistic network across the planet. Each GKG record is a pairing of a set of names, events, counts, actors, locations, themes, and tones (GDELT, 2019, Hopp, et al, 2019.…”

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Using Big Global Database to Analyse Impact of Web News to Tourist Visits Due to the 2017 Eruption of Agung Volcano, Bali, Indonesia

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2021

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Bali Island, well known as The Island of The Gods, is a top tourist destination. In 2017, Agung Volcano eruption causes lots of tourist canceled their visits to Bali due to excessive news about the danger to travel to Bali. This was the first research conducted to analyses impact of volcanic disaster to tourist visits using big data in Bali, Indonesia. This research uses big global database or big data to analyses the impact of web news to tourist visits to Bali due to Agung volcano eruption. Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data, both spatial and non-spatial that inundates the world on a day-today basis. Big data in this research were processed from The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. GDELT project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. The purpose of this research is to analyses the impact of Agung Volcano eruption to tourist visits to Bali in 2017. Every news data sets from every country, filtered, calculated and spatially analyzed to discover the timeline and impact of Agung Volcano eruption on tourist visits to Bali in 2017. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used for calculation and spatial analysis. The result shows that the number of tourist visits were declining in October and November 2017 but raised again in December. November has the highest number of news related to the eruption. After the eruption in December, the number of tourist visits start to rising due to the operational of the airport. The declining caused by shutdown of Bali airport and travel warning policy from foreign country for their citizen to not to travel to Bali. Even though the number of tourists is declining in October and November, number of tourists visit on the same period in 2017 were higher than 2016.

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“…The study introduced the GDELT database as a fruitful data source to be tapped for strategic communication research (for a newly introduced tool facilitating its use, see Hopp et al, 2019). It provides real-time data on media and online coverage worldwide.…”

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“…For the study of social movements, GDELT data can be used to map protests, for instance, the Women's March, and organizations' reactions to such events, either in terms of crisis communication or regarding corporate political advocacy. With the development of more accessible tools for (strategic) communication researchers (Hopp et al, 2019), even more application areas will become apparent that do not require programming or database handling skills. Furthermore, the global focus of the database allows including the under researched area of the Global South to get a bigger picture of strategic communication's impact across the world.…”

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“…Such inductive analyses are rare and mostly concentrate on single countries (e.g., Nyberg et al, 2018). However, with the possibilities of automated content analysis of text and access to global databases such as GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone; Hopp et al, 2019), inductive topic modelling based on large amounts of global coverage has become feasible and can lead to new insights on the processes of online debate of relevant public issues in a global media environment. Such an inductive approach allows detecting emergent relationships between actors, places of interaction, and issue characteristics over the course of the debate (Vos et al, 2014).…”

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Debating Glyphosate: A Macro Perspective on the Role of Strategic Communication in Forming and Monitoring A Global Issue Arena Using Inductive Topic Modelling

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2020

International Journal of Strategic Communication

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Stakeholders debate issues of public interest in global online issue arenas, but political decision makers decide on these macro issues at national and supranational levels. A better understanding of the role of organizations in forming and monitoring such issue debates is necessary, given the influence of public affairs activities and media debates on politicians' and public opinion. However, such a macro perspective is largely missing. This study analyzes the debate around the use of the pesticide glyphosate when the European Union decided on a license renewal in 2017. To uncover emerging salient topics and their relations with organizations, the online global coverage of the issue from the GDELT database (N = 1677) was analyzed using inductive automated content analysis (LDA topic modeling). Only three topics were salient in the arena, most prominently the carcinogenicity of glyphosate, thereby sidelining other relevant aspects. Furthermore, online issue arenas reach globally and are converged communicative spaces where a variety of media participate. Thus, the article develops and tests a typology of online news media for issue arena research. Advancing theory on organizations' roles and strategies in these online issue arenas, a new classification of actors based on their visibility and communication strategy is proposed. Societally relevant issues, such as the use of pesticides in agriculture and its consequences for public health, are discussed in global (online) issue arenas (Vos et al., 2014), but decided politically at national and supranational levels. Given the influence of the media's issue framing on public and politicians' opinions (Van Aelst & Waalgrave, 2016), a better understanding of issue debates in global issue arenas is necessary, particularly when they focus on macro issues that bear consequences for all of society (Ewing, 1990). However, a truly global perspective is largely missing in strategic communication research, as its focus has most often been on national issues of public interest (e.g., Luoma-aho et al., 2013) or cross-national analyses (e.g., Ihlen et al., 2018). Societal-level, i.e., macro, analyses of an organization's environment are of importance to strategic communicators in practice, and thus performed by applied research companies, but often lack in strategic communication research, where the organization rather than its environment is at the center of analysis (Zerfass et al., 2018). A variety of organizations be they companies, governments, or other interest groups form and monitor societal debates through strategic communication management. Issue arenas open offline and/ or online when various actors communicate about a societally relevant subject (Luoma-aho & Vos, 2009). Organizations actively form these arenas by communicating directly via owned media to get their issue position heard, by using shared media to engage in dialogue, and by approaching (earned) media outlets to build their agenda to reach political decision makers indirectly and via their constituents (Mc...

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iCoRe: The GDELT Interface for the Advancement of Communication Research

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

The extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text

The extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text

Using Big Global Database to Analyse Impact of Web News to Tourist Visits Due to the 2017 Eruption of Agung Volcano, Bali, Indonesia

Debating Glyphosate: A Macro Perspective on the Role of Strategic Communication in Forming and Monitoring A Global Issue Arena Using Inductive Topic Modelling

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