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Xenophobic Events vs. Refugee Population -- Using GDELT to Identify Countries with Disproportionate Coverage
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Erika Frydenlund, Michele C. Weigle
In this preliminary study, we used the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) database to examine xenophobic events reported in the media during 2022. We collected a…
The Use of Web Archives in Disinformation Research
Michele C. Weigle
In recent years, journalists and other researchers have used web archives as an important resource for their study of disinformation. This paper provides several examples of this u…
Extracting Information from Twitter Screenshots
Tarannum Zaki, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Screenshots are prevalent on social media as a common approach for information sharing. Users rarely verify before sharing a screenshot whether the post it contains is fake or real…
Exploring Xenophobic Events through GDELT Data Analysis
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Erika Frydenlund, Michele C. Weigle
This study explores xenophobic events related to refugees and migration using the GDELT 2.0 database and APIs through visualizations. We conducted two case studies -- the first bei…
Right HTML, Wrong JSON: Challenges in Replaying Archived Webpages Built with Client-Side Rendering
Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Sawood Alam +1
Many web sites are transitioning how they construct their pages. The conventional model is where the content is embedded server-side in the HTML and returned to the client in an HT…
Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Webpages change over time, and web archives hold copies of historical versions of webpages. Users of web archives, such as journalists, want to find and view changes on webpages ov…
Discovering the Traces of Disinformation on Instagram in the Internet Archive
Haley Bragg, Michele Weigle
Disinformation, which is fabricated, misleading content spread with the intent to deceive others, is accumulating substantial engagements and reaching a vast audience on Instagram.…