This repository contains a textual analysis focused on media coverage and gun control policy, specifically centered on the Parkland shooting event of February 14, 2018. The project aggregates and summarizes media data to explore the political and social responses following the incident.
Features
- Collection and aggregation of media coverage data related to the Parkland shooting
- Temporal filtering of news articles to isolate event-specific reporting
- Preliminary analysis of media volume and content trends over time
Tech Stack
- Data source: NexisUni news database
- Text data stored as raw text files
(Note: No explicit code or tooling specified in the repository; presumed manual or external data collection and analysis)
Getting Started
Since this repository primarily contains textual data and analysis, no installation or runtime environment is required.
To explore the content:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/justin-napolitano/media-and-policy.git
- Navigate to the
full-textfile to review the collected media analysis.
Project Structure
media-and-policy/
└── full-text # Text file containing the media coverage analysis and commentary
Future Work / Roadmap
- Develop scripts or tools to automate the filtering and classification of news articles
- Expand the dataset to include more recent or diverse sources
- Conduct quantitative sentiment or topic modeling analysis
- Create visualizations to illustrate media coverage trends over time
- Publish findings in a more structured format such as a research paper or interactive dashboard