FakeNarratives

We are thrilled to announce that we received the *Best Paper Award” at the *International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2024 in Phuket, Thailand.

Presented our interdisciplinary research on "Identification of Speaker Roles and Situation Types in News Videos" in the best paper session @ #ICMR2024 in Phuket, Thailand. In the context of narrativization in news media.#AI #NewsAnalytics #Multimodal #FakeNarratives pic.twitter.com/AanXn7Apzl

— Gullal S. Cheema (@Gullal7) June 11, 2024

We presented a progress report on the the search for filmic narrative strategies in audiovisual news reporting at the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference (SCSMI) 2024 in Budapest.

Abstract

Audiovisual news reporting is now documented to involve many filmic techniques that bring news reporting ever closer to audiovisual storytelling. At SCSMI-2022 we introduced our FakeNarratives project, which undertakes a contrastive cataloguing of filmic narrative strategies in both mainstream and alternative news media to support the location of potentially problematic messaging. We now discuss the progress that has been made towards automating the recognition of filmic structures using diverse computational techniques for audiovisual processing. Results are maintained in a searchable richly annotated graph structure, allowing us to define narrative patterns in terms of formal combinations of filmic features present in the graph. By these means, we increase the scale of data on which filmic narrative patterns can be derived, empirically validated, and productively visualised. As the analytic framework is oriented to audiovisual material in general, we also show how aspects of the account may contribute to film research more broadly.

Tomorrow, Nicolas Ruth will give an in-depth talk about our scalabe visualization approach to detect patterns in large collections of videos (see CHR 2024 paper "from clusters to graphs": https://t.co/Wd3fNrNpLU). For the zoom link contact Eva Ommert (https://t.co/K3C1bTmDG1) pic.twitter.com/DSEHa8JydX

— Manuel Burghardt (@8urghardt) January 22, 2024

New journal article on understanding semantic image-text relations and news values for multimodal news analysis. https://t.co/ymlGvTYOuj

Paper with @_ericmb @chro___ @sherzodhakimov @RalphEwerth & John A Bateman

— Gullal S. Cheema (@Gullal7) May 2, 2023

We are presenting a paper with first results from FakeNarratives at Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DhD) 2023 which takes place from March 13-17.

Tseng, C.-I., Liebl, B., Burghardt, M., & Bateman, J. A. (2023). FakeNarratives - First Forays in Understanding Narratives of Disinformation in Public and Alternative News Videos. 9. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, DHd 2023, Belval, Luxembourg and Trier, Germany, March 13 - 17, 2023, 138.

You can access the paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715277

Abstract

In this paper we present first results from an ongoing BMBF project on FakeNarratives. In the project we investigate a socially significant class of audiovisual artifacts: TV news. We address the research hypothesis that news of this kind increasingly employs strategies of audiovisual narrative that may undercut, undermine or construct ideological positions and evaluations of news content independently of what may be simply stated, for example, in accompanying spoken text. We present first results from a comparison of Bild TV and Tagesschau and also introduce a first prototype vor the visualization and analysis of news videos.