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Some time ago I started writing a little research diary. Nothing really fancy, just some considerations about the research I am currently conducting in my post-doc, working with large collections of news data: https://francescamorini.com/articles/visualizing-news-data
Now, after some time (like 2 months :D), I decided to start a small blog on my website to store this entry and all the future ones. Let's see if I will manage to keep it updated and hopefully at least marginally interesting.
Few months ago I started working on a research project with the idea of visualising historical and contemporary news discourses. The main idea is that we can generate insight from monitoring the unfolding discourses of contemporary digital news. This essay includes some considerations on the data scouting and preparation, a process that lead me to think very hard about news items as a data source for visualisation. I took some time to write down some of these thoughts, because the reliable access to news data would have been almost impossible, without relying on commercial services. Arguably, the lack of open archives for digital news poses an issue to historical research about contemporary news production. In the following paragraphs, I describe the state of the art of digital news data. Then, I propose three experiments that show the potential of news data for visualisation research. These example show the different perspectives of contemporary digital journalism that could be explored through collections of standardised news data.
