Framing and Agenda-setting in Russian News: a Computational Analysis of Intricate Political Strategies (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Amidst growing concern over media manipulation, NLP studies focus on overt strategies like censorship and “fake news”. |
| Approach: | They propose to use two concepts from political science literature to identify subtler media manipulation strategies . they propose to apply embedding-based methods to cross-lingually project English frames to Russian . |
| Outcome: | The proposed techniques can be applied to 13 years of the Russian newspaper Izvestia and show that they highlight U.S. moral failings and threats to the U.s. |
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