Media Cloud

Tracking political discourse in the U.S. for March, April, and May of 2020

Tracking political discourse in the U.S. for January and February of 2020

Research shows elites, mass media play an important role in spreading voting misinformation

Working paper explores disinformation campaign about mail-in voter fraud

The Guardian celebrates some of our research as the most important of the year.

Technology can be a threat to the integrity and quality of media, but also a source of potential solutions.

In this talk, Berkman Klein affiliate Jonas Kaiser will share some of his research on the networked public sphere. "The right-wing is rising. Not only in the United States but…

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage of the 2016 presidential…

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election.

The recent US election, and related conversations about misinformation, have brought questions about media influence to the forefront of internet research and communications…

Research shows that public health information networks online have been largely unsuccessful in driving an evidence-based information network narrative around key health topics…

A new paper from the Media Cloud team concludes that a diverse set of actors working in conjunction through the networked public sphere played a central, arguably decisive, role…

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the publication of “Social mobilization and the networked public sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA debate,” authored…

This paper uses a new set of online research tools to develop a detailed study of the public debate over proposed legislation in the United States designed to give prosecutors and…

Huge congratulations to our friend and colleague Ethan Zuckerman on his new gig at the MIT Media Lab! Ethan writes, "So, I got a new job. A really cool new job."

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that the Media Cloud Dashboard is open for public use. We invite you to experiment with the tool, which generates weekly word clouds of…

From Ethan Zuckerman's blog: "...Hal Roberts, David Larochelle, Zoe Fraade-Blanar...have been revamping the Media Cloud tool this past year, trying to make it more powerful for…

Jure will discuss his analysis of approximately 1.6 million mainstream media sites and blogs for a period of three months, covering about 1 million articles per day.

Ethan and Hal will present their prototype system to retrieve, tag, cluster and analyze blog and newspaper data, and discuss how the Media Cloud platform will be used in our…

From March 23 - April 3, students can apply to work with Berkman as Summer of Code participants.

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the launch of Media Cloud, a new project that seeks to track news content comprehensively -- providing free, open, and flexible research…

Thomson Reuters has teamed with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to support the new ‘Media Cloud’ open research tool. Debuting in Q2, 2009, Media Cloud…

Research from Joan Donovan and colleague shows how right-wing media enabled a disinformation campaign around The 1619 Project

Journalists should treat systematic disinformation campaigns from President Trump and his party no differently than those from Russian propagandists and Facebook clickbait artists

Ethan Zuckerman discusses the opportunities and consequences of participatory media.

Ethan Zuckerman discusses the opportunities and consequences of participatory media.

An analysis of over 6,000 articles about the recent tragedy reveals useful guidelines for journalists on reporting extreme content

What does the data show? Looking at the relationship between Fox News and the Trump Administration.

Berkman Klein research cited in a writeup of how political figures are contributing to the spread of misinformation through fringe news sites and into the mainstream media

Why is there so often no overlap, no resemblance whatsoever between the news events reported in mainstream print and broadcast coverage?

"The highly asymmetric pattern of media ecosystems we observe on the right and the left, despite the fact that Facebook and Twitter usage is roughly similar on both sides,…

Yochai Benkler at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.

A discussion on how to think about technology, politics, and media in the post-truth moment