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This week I discovered Media Cloud. While I am still figuring out how to use it productively, I was grabbed by its mission. Describing itself, Media Cloud tells us that it compiles global media. So, we can choose an event or a topic and then scan the world or a country to see how people everywhere or in a specific place responded. Also, we can use the site to identify spikes in attention. My experimentation started with socialism. Investigating increasing mentions of socialism in. the media, I was curious about whether there truly was an increase in attention, and what the media said. Media Cloud had some answers.
While their feedback formats varied, this is one example:
