MEGATRENDS AND MEDIA

MEGATRENDS AND MEDIA
– Cinemetrics is a quantitative measurement tool that extracts
statistical data from movies to reveal their inner characteristics such
as editing structure, color, speech and motion. The open access web
database includes more than 15,000 ilms. http://www.cinemetrics.
lv/
– ACTI O N is a audio-visual toolkit to study stylistic patterns distributed
among ilms and directors, frame-by-frame data, segmentation,
audio and other content features. It‘s a platform for researching new
methodologies in the study of ilm and media history. http://aum.
dartmouth.edu/~action/
– TOME project is a topic model and metadata visualization tool
designed to explore the text-based archives and identify the themes
that recur across a collection of text. As a initial data-set will serve
an archive of 19th century antislavery newspapers. http://dhlab.
lmc.gatech.edu/tome/
– Project Arclight is a developing web-based tool that enables the
study of 20 th century American media through comparisons across
time and space. The Arclight app will analyze over two million
digitally scanned pages of magazines and newspapers for trends
related to a chosen media history subject. http://projectarclight.
org/
– Media Systems: Envisioning the Future of Computational Media
identiies key opportunities, challenges, and recommendations for
the future of creating and understanding media – a future in which
computation will play an increasingly important role. https://
mediasystems.soe.ucsc.edu/
– Channelography creates statistics about BBC programmes by
reading and analysing the captions and schedules data over time
and by channel. http://rattlecentral.com/channelography/
– The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic
media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public
access. http://mediahistoryproject.org/
This is a limited selection, there are a number of other projects and what
is more, media scholar can effectively utilize the tools originally designed
for other purposes (text-based or visual). 25
25 See the usefull and integrated database of DH tools DiRT: http://
dirtdirectory.org/
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