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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): The Politics of Humanitarian News

VisFrameCluster overview

This project uses a ten-year news corpus of over one million articles and applies multi-stage natural language processing and machine learning methods to examine the framing (paper 1), journalistic roles (paper 2), and agenda-setting (paper 3) of humanitarian news.

  • Duration: 09/2024 – 03/2027
  • Grant Amount: €221,400
  • PI: Dr. Zhe Xu (LMU Munich, Germany)
  • Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Martin Scott (University of East Anglia, UK); Prof. Dr. Dani Madrid-Morales (University of Sheffield, UK); Prof. Dr. Kate Wright (University of Edinburgh, UK); Prof. Dr. Yotam Ophir (University at Buffalo, US); Prof. Dr. Liane Rothenberger (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany)
  • Research Team: Michela Cimarelli (LMU Munich); Shuai Wang (LMU Munich)