Recognized / Not Recognized, (Looking for the popular news image algorithm)
2017
The project Recognized / Not Recognized revolves around the question: ‘What features determine ‘successfull’ news photos?’
From a selection of worldwide press agency databases (which include amateur witness photos) I scraped all the news photos in relation to the ten events that received the most coverage in the past five years. This resulted in a database of approx. 850.000 images. By using image recognition software from Google (and some proxies), I determined how many times an individual image exists on the google indexed internet. In other words, the reproduction rate of each image is calculated.
Press photos from a big news event have a wide range of variables but are in a way very uniform - since they are all witness photographs –, therefore my database consists of an ideal set for a cross-sectional study.
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Coding: Muhammad Atif Ayaz, Emile den Tex
Made possible by: Stimuleringsfonds voor Creatieve Industrie, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten & Museum of the Image, Digital Methods Initiative - University of Amsterdam.
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