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A natural upgrade of this chart: 1. Analyze titles only to get a sense of what narrative is being pushed. Titles are usually made of screaming hot-words to gra
by akomtu 2y ago
A natural upgrade of this chart:
1. Analyze titles only to get a sense of what narrative is being pushed. Titles are usually made of screaming hot-words to grab attention.
2. Draw each word as a colored circle on a 2D plane, using some word2vec model. This is going to capture changes in meaning. For example, we would see how the word "safety" migrates from one neighborhood to another.
3. Show an animation how the usage of hot-words changes with time, from 80s to today. This will show how the narrative changes.
Edit: another upgrade would be to do the same, but for newspapers of the opposite camp. This would show two evolving clouds of hot-words: a red cloud and a blue cloud. It's not obvious how the two evolve: whether they stay away from each other, or interact. My hypothesis is that they keep a good distance from each other to keep their readers in separate bubbles. This is necessary because the readers give energy of their attention to the clouds, and a rational self-serving tactic is to fence off their faithful readers.