In this project we explore the presence of ambiguity in textual and visual media and its influence on accurately understanding and capturing bias in news. We study this topic in the context of supporting media scholars and social scientists in their media analysis. Our focus lies on racial and gender bias as well as framing and the comparison of their manifestation across modalities, cultures and languages. In this paper we lay out a human in the loop approach to investigate the role of ambiguity in detection and interpretation of bias.@en

Bias is inevitable and inherent in any form of communication. News often appear biased to citizens with dierent political orientations, and understood dierently by news media scholars and the broader public. In this paper we advocate the need for accurate methods for bias identication in video news item, to enable rich analytics capabilities in order to assist humanities media scholars and social political scientists. We propose to analyze biases that are typical in video news (including framing, gender and racial biases) by means of a human-in-the-loop approach that combines text and image analysis with human computation techniques.@en