Global Flows of Political Information (GLOWIN)

GLOWIN is a research project that creates the first map of the flows of political information across countries. This is a pioneering research agenda, as social sciences simply do not know the extent to which politically relevant information, as reported in mass media, travels across nations. GLOWIN opens the space for systematic exploration of this important dimension of globalization and international politics long unaddressed.

We combine deep inter-disciplinary theorization with cutting-edge methodology and data collection techniques. Unique empirical data allow for coverage of news from virtually all countries of the world and thousands of online media outlets. We use state-of the-art machine learning algorithms to analyze news text, to map the content and meaning of what media around the world report about foreign nations. To estimate the amount of political information contained in this news, GLOWIN derives an original measure of political information based on insights from information theory.

Project team of FSV UK (3)

doc. Michal Parízek, Ph.D.

Principal investigator

+420 296 824 664

michal.parizek@fsv.cuni.cz

Mgr. Jakub Stauber, Ph.D.

Team member

+420 296 824 653

jakub.stauber@fsv.cuni.cz

Mgr. Jakub Tesař, Ph.D.

Team member

+420 296 824 648

jakub.tesar@fsv.cuni.cz