Revision as of 22:12, 1 October 2018

In the Image Appropriation (I) with Javi we played around with the Download All Images Extension for Firefox Quantum: https://add0n.com/save-images.html

My Research

Using this extension I tried to do a snapshot of various News sites online. How does the visual language of each news site look like?
What kind of photos are on display? (for example portraits, landscapes)
Which site is triggering emotions? (for example overexaggerated facial expressions)
Is the site heavily influenced by advertisement imagery?

The Results

Here you can find all the scraped images with the timestamp in alphabetical order:

edition.cnn.com
eu.usatoday.com
www.bbc.com
www.foxnews.com
www.independent.co.uk
www.lemonde.fr
www.nbcnews.com
www.nytimes.com
www.spiegel.de
www.stern.de
www.theguardian.com
www.thesun.co.uk
www.zeit.de

Outlook

Of course there can be done various improvements. Because I was manually triggering the extension there is a small time stretch. To have a neutral overview the script should download the imagery for all pages simultaneously. Also the extension seems to have trouble to download all pictures on some webpages. I still have to do some test runs with various parameters (Deep Search Levels and so on…)

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 =My Research=
-Using this extension I tried to do a snapshot of various News sites online. How does the visual language of each news site look like?
+Using this extension I tried to do a snapshot of various News sites online. How does the visual language of each news site look like?<br>
-What kind of photos are on display?
+What kind of photos are on display? (for example portraits, landscapes)<br>
-Does one show more portraits, others more landscapes?
+Which site is triggering emotions? (for example overexaggerated facial expressions)<br>
-Which site is triggering emotions?
+Is the site heavily influenced by advertisement imagery?
-Is the site heavily influenced by ads?
 =The Results=