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Political TV Ad Archive (and a resource round-up)
A media literacy opportunity like this comes along every four years.
Political advertising is expected to reach several billions of dollars this season, leaving most Americans both barraged and confused.
Political TV Ad Archive, a free project recently launched by the Internet Archive, arrived just in time to support this learning opportunity. It is already inspiring journalists, data visualizers, and more to look at political TV ads in a new way.
Funded by the Knight News Challenge and the Democracy Fund and individual donors, the online archive of 2016 primary election political ads is searchable by candidate, sponsor or keyword. The Archive tracks political TV ads in 20 markets in our growing number of primary states. In addition to making it easy to find, view and share the ads, the Archive connects to resources that help discern credibility.
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The open source Political TV Ad Archive offers both numerical and graphically represented data to promote audio or video analysis. Each ad has its own canonical web page and associated downloadable metadata, prepared either by Internet Archive or the the media itself. The downloadable data includes: when, where and how often the ad has aired, on which TV stations, who is sponsoring the ad, subject(s) covered, which candidates are targeted, and the legal designation of the sponsor.
Here are examples of how journalists are using the available data:
You can see a video of the big January 22 launch here.
You can follow the project on Twitter @PolitAdArchive.
For more fact-checking, the Archive offers links to some impressive partners:
- American Press Institute
- Center for Responsive Politics
- Center for Public Integrity
- Duke Reporters’ Lab
- FactCheck.org
- PolitiFact
- The Washington Post’s Fact Checker
Please also be sure to explore:
- Frank Baker’s Media and Politics
- PBS Learning Media’s Election Central
- Museum of the Moving Image’s The Living Room Candidate
- C-SPAN Classroom’s Campaign 2016
- New York Times Learning Channel’s Election 2016 and its Television Commercial Analysis Chart
- KidsVotingUSA
- Rock the Vote
- Edutopia’s Election 2016 Resources
- Vote Smart’s K-12 Classroom Activities and Resources: Civics Matters Curriculum
- NEA’s Election Resources
Filed under: advertising, media, media literacy, media search, politics, presidents, technology, television
About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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