Visual analytics of media frames in online news and blogs

Media frames define different perspectives or ways of communicating about issues and can be manifested through patterns of language use such as key words and their composition. Analytically there is interest in trying to identify new frames around issues, and to compare how types of frames vary across different news outlets, or over time. In this paper we consider these analytic needs in the context of two use-cases relating to news producers and news consumers, and describe the initial design of a visual analytics tool, the LingoScope, in terms of how it supports these use-cases. MEDIA FRAMING AND ITS VISUAL ANALYSIS Framing refers to the ways in which an issue is presented in the media, including the various perspectives an