Marta Reynal-Querol/Ricardo Baeza/Elliot Motte/Federico Sscabbia (UPF) — How long do we pay attention to a war?

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📰How long are we actually paying attention to armed conflicts?📰

Media coverage shapes everything: public perception, foreign policy, humanitarian aid and diplomatic pressure. But studying how it evolves over time wasn't possible due to the lack of curated, structured data. 

The team formed by Marta Reynal-Querol, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Elliot Motte and Federico Scabbia from Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona has combined data from worldwide conflict events between 2000-2024 with approximately 10 million news articles to address this challenge with #Cibeles at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

🔎𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝?🔎 

🔹 Coverage spikes sharply in the first month after a conflict breaks out but, within just 3 months, media attention disappears even in ongoing conflicts
🔹 The findings reveal a systemic "attention deficit": sustained conflicts rapidly lose visibility in global media
🔹 The only exception is the anniversary of the conflict, where media coverage briefly recovers

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