Propaganda web crawler

PANČÍK, Juraj and Vít BAISA. Propaganda web crawler. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: Propaganda web crawler
• Authors: PANČÍK, Juraj and Vít BAISA.
• Edition: 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Software
• Field of Study: 10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Web app with visualizations of the crawling and the analysis
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Keywords (in Czech): web crawler, monitorování, textová analýza, propaganda, zprávy
• Keywords in English: web crawler, monitoring, text analysis, propaganda, news
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This is a software tool (website crawler) for tracking articles from selected website domains at regular time intervals. Information from articles is extracted via templates and stored in vertical file format. The output from this tool (contents of articles) is regularly analysed and results from these analyses are presented via easy-to-read graphs and tables on a generated static website. The primary use of this tool is for the analysis of articles on selected Czech websites (domains).

Links

• MUNI/G/0872/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Manipulativní techniky propagandy v době internetu

Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects