Tracking Local Television Around the World

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[ Session Name ] Tracking Local Television Around the World [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Daniel Schultz [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Bad Idea Factory [ Submitter's GitHub ] @slifty

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Nancy Watzman

What will happen in your session?

This session will teach participants how to turn local television channels into streams of data (captions, coverage patterns, word extraction, etc), share those real time data streams with one another, and use that data for novel journalism and reporting. We will share code, lessons learned, datasets, and analysis approaches that came from our time at the Internet Archive's TV News Archive.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We want people to learn how to unlock their own local television streams for themselves and for the rest of the world. Technically inclined participants should walk away knowing how to run code locally that takes a video stream and converts it to data. Journalistic / design inclined participants will learn about a new category of data that they can use to create new kinds of stories and data visualizations.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Projector would be great, but we can survive without one!

Time needed

60 mins