Image Appropriation (I)

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

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? Does one show more portraits, others more landscapes? Which site is triggering emotions? Is the site heavily influenced by ads?

The Results

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

CNN International - Breaking News- US News- World News and Video - 10-1-2018 3-53-30 PM

edition.cnn.com

Latest World - National News - Headlines - USATODAY-com - 10-1-2018 3-53-13 PM

eu.usatoday.com

BBC - Homepage - 10-1-2018 3-51-16 PM

www.bbc.com

Fox News - Breaking News Updates - Latest News Headlines - Photos - News Videos - 10-1-2018 3-52-19 PM

www.foxnews.com

The Independent - News - UK and Worldwide News - Newspaper - 10-1-2018 3-55-50 PM

www.independent.co.uk

Le Monde-fr - Actualités et Infos en France et dans le monde - 10-1-2018 3-57-34 PM

www.lemonde.fr

NBC News - Breaking News - Top Stories - Latest World- US - Local News - NBC News - 10-1-2018 3-54-15 PM

www.nbcnews.com

The New York Times - Breaking News- World News - Multimedia - 10-1-2018 3-51-42 PM

www.nytimes.com

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.

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