Roger Macdonald – Internet Archive Blogs

On Thursday, September 9, the Internet Archive will host an online webinar, “Reflecting on 9/11: Twenty Years of Archived TV News” Learn from scholars, journalists, archivists, and data scien...

https://blog.archive.org/2021/08/13/9-11-twenty-years-of-archived-tv-news-special-event-and-resources/

On November 4, 1979 Marion Stokes began systematically video taping television news and continued for more than 33 years, until the day she died. The Internet Archive is now home

https://blog.archive.org/2019/05/24/71716-video-tapes-in-12094-days/

The Internet Archive is honored to receive today a Knight News Challenge grant to support our collaborative efforts to help citizens make sound decisions in the 2016 U.S. elections; for the be...

https://blog.archive.org/2015/07/22/2016-political-tv-ad-tracker-with-analysis-fact-checking-citizens-can-trust/

Study finds 842 minutes of political Ads compared to 18.7 minutes of political news stories in large sample of Philadelphia TV

https://blog.archive.org/2015/03/19/political-ads-win-over-news-45-to-1-in-philly-tv-news-2014/

Presentation by Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian at Ford Foundation NetGain gathering, — a call from 5 top foundations to think big about prospects for our digital future.  (...

https://blog.archive.org/2015/02/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web/

Philadelphia-region Political Media Ad Watch is a pilot project that allows citizens and journalists to go online to search every political message in the Philly television market, compare all...

https://blog.archive.org/2014/10/15/media-money-elections-2014-philly-political-media-ad-watch/

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin, November 15, 1755 A year ago today, Glenn Greenwald publis...

https://blog.archive.org/2014/06/06/1-year-later-nsa-revelations-debate-and-dire-prospects/

Twenty five years ago Tiananmen Square was splashed with the blood of protestors. For seven weeks they had banded together to advocate a democratic future for the Peoples Republic of

https://blog.archive.org/2014/06/04/peering-at-a-dark-time-in-tiananmen-square-through-stokes-archive-glass/

UI / UX Advances in Freeing Information Enslaved by an Ancient Egyptian Model  Or… Why Video Scrolling is so Last Millenniums In creating an open digital research library of television

https://blog.archive.org/2014/05/07/let-our-video-go/

We are excited to unveil a couple experimental data-driven visualizations that literally map 400,000 hours of U.S. television news. One of our collaborating scholars, Kalev Leetaru, applied “fu...

https://blog.archive.org/2013/12/13/mapping-400000-hours-of-u-s-tv-news/