LMD crisis in NYT media

• 07/05 Louisiana killing
• 07/06 Minnesota killing
• 07/07 Dallas shooting

Hypotheses:

• Differences in topics across channels
• Differences across time periods
• Interaction between channels across time periods

NY Times:

• NYT API (+web scraping)
• NYT @Twitter
• NYT Facebook comments

     Police People Black lives matter
1    police people              black
2       gun   will              lives
3      cops    can             matter
4    people   like              white
5  officers    get             people
6      dont    one             racist
7      just   just                blm
8       man   need             police
9       get   dont             blacks
10  officer police              obama

   Racism Dallas shooting Philando shooting
1   black          police            police
2  police          dallas            blacks
3   white        officers               new
4   lives          killed          shooting
5  people         protest          philando
6  racism        shooting             force
7     amp       shootings           castile
8  matter           alton               use
9    stop        sterling              says
10   cops           baton          violence

   Foreign policy Shooting Elections
1            said   police       new
2         percent     said       one
3            vote officers    people
4            year    black       can
5          brexit   dallas      like
6            will  officer      york
7           since shooting     trump
8        european      two      july
9         british     shot      even
10        britain     says      just

• Main effect of Media: NYT articles more neutral, though Facebook close behind
• Interaction effect: Topics varied throughout crisis in different ways across media.
• Caveats:
  • tight time frame
  • validate results with more methods

• Code: https://github.com/RRisto/Summer-school-course-project
• Visualisations: http://rristo.github.io/start.html