Presentation about our research project 'PoliMedia - Interlinking multimedia for the analysis of media coverage of political debates'. Presented at the PoliMedia symposium, 23 January 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1. Introduction to PoliMedia
Martijn Kleppe
Erasmus University Rotterdam

2. Current approach of research
Potential research questions
• How is a person, subject or process covered & visualised by the media?
• How do debates and arguments develop over a longer period of time?
• Analysing the changing ideas, arguments and presentation in different
media

3. Issues with current approach
+ = Too much
work
(Travel &
manually)

4. Issues with current approach
Limited
+ =
material and
different
systems
(No images +
selection of
programs)

5. Main research question
What choices do different media make in the coverage
of people and topics while reporting on debates in the
Dutch parliament since the first televised evening news
in 1956 until 1995?

6. PoliMedia approach
PoliMedia
Newspapers
Portal
KB
Staten
- Browse:
Generaal Television
debate and
Digitaal Sound and Vision
date
KB
- Search:
debate and Radio
person KB

7. Advantage of PoliMedia
Better insight in the relations between media items

8. Who? – The User
How? - Linking
How? - Interface
www.polimedia.nl

9. Thanks!
Martijn Kleppe
Erasmus University Rotterdam
kleppe@eshcc.eur.nl
www.martijnkleppe.nl
@martijnkleppe