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The Politics of International Humanitarian News (Funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)

Project overview

This project uses a decade-long corpus of more than one million news articles and employs NLP-based computational content analysis to investigate how international news media frame humanitarian crises, enact their journalistic role during crises, and shape agenda-setting processes in the context of humanitarian crises.

  • Duration: 09/2024 – 03/2027
  • Grant Amount: €221,400
  • PI: Dr. Zhe Xu (Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany)
  • Collaborators:
    Prof. Dr. Martin Scott (School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, UK)
    Prof. Dr. Dani Madrid-Morales (School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield, UK)
    Prof. Dr. Kate Wright (School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK)
    Prof. Dr. Yotam Ophir (Department of Communication, University at Buffalo, US)
    Prof. Dr. Liane Rothenberger (Institute of Communication Science, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany)
  • Research Assistants:
    Michela Cimarelli (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany)
    Shuai Wang (Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany)