Entry Date:
January 20, 2012

Media Cloud

Principal Investigator Ethan Zuckerman

Project End Date
 May 2015


Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems -- the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offline sources. By tracking millions of stories published online or broadcast via television, the system allows researchers to track the spread of memes, media framings and the tone of coverage of different stories. The platform is open source and open data, designed to be a substrate for a wide range of communications research efforts. Media Cloud is a collaboration between Civic Media and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.