BAR-Analytics: A Web-based Platform for Analyzing Information Spreading Barriers in News: Comparative Analysis Across Multiple Barriers and Events

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Autori principali: Sittar, Abdul, Mladenic, Dunja, Gucek, Alenka, Grobelnik, Marko
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author Sittar, Abdul
Mladenic, Dunja
Gucek, Alenka
Grobelnik, Marko
author_facet Sittar, Abdul
Mladenic, Dunja
Gucek, Alenka
Grobelnik, Marko
contents This paper presents BAR-Analytics, a web-based, open-source platform designed to analyze news dissemination across geographical, economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Using the Russian-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts as case studies, the platform integrates four analytical methods: propagation analysis, trend analysis, sentiment analysis, and temporal topic modeling. Over 350,000 articles were collected and analyzed, with a focus on economic disparities and geographical influences using metadata enrichment. We evaluate the case studies using coherence, sentiment polarity, topic frequency, and trend shifts as key metrics. Our results show distinct patterns in news coverage: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tends to have more negative sentiment with a focus on human rights, while the Russia-Ukraine conflict is more positive, emphasizing election interference. These findings highlight the influence of political, economic, and regional factors in shaping media narratives across different conflicts.
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spellingShingle BAR-Analytics: A Web-based Platform for Analyzing Information Spreading Barriers in News: Comparative Analysis Across Multiple Barriers and Events
Sittar, Abdul
Mladenic, Dunja
Gucek, Alenka
Grobelnik, Marko
Computation and Language
This paper presents BAR-Analytics, a web-based, open-source platform designed to analyze news dissemination across geographical, economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Using the Russian-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts as case studies, the platform integrates four analytical methods: propagation analysis, trend analysis, sentiment analysis, and temporal topic modeling. Over 350,000 articles were collected and analyzed, with a focus on economic disparities and geographical influences using metadata enrichment. We evaluate the case studies using coherence, sentiment polarity, topic frequency, and trend shifts as key metrics. Our results show distinct patterns in news coverage: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tends to have more negative sentiment with a focus on human rights, while the Russia-Ukraine conflict is more positive, emphasizing election interference. These findings highlight the influence of political, economic, and regional factors in shaping media narratives across different conflicts.
title BAR-Analytics: A Web-based Platform for Analyzing Information Spreading Barriers in News: Comparative Analysis Across Multiple Barriers and Events
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24220