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The Politics of International Humanitarian News (Funded by DFG)

This project draws on a decade-long corpus of over one million humanitarian news articles developed by the University of Edinburgh team, developing and employing natural language processing and network analysis methods to examine journalistic practices across political and media systems in the context of humanitarian crises.

• Duration: 09/2024 – 03/2027
• Grant Amount: €221,430
• 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. Yotam Ophir, Department of Communication, University at Buffalo, US
  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. Liane Rothenberger, Institute of Communication Science, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
• Research Assistants:
  Michela Cimarelli, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany (Now PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, UK)
  Shuai Wang, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
  Gaia Guatri, Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Germany (Now PhD Candidate, Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)