Newspaper corpus & metadata
Read about how the print media corpus was built, cleaned, and categorised.
Media Mining Memory – Nigeria
A layered digital archive tracking how Nigerian newspapers, state reports, and community narratives have represented mining accidents, labour, environment, and extraction from 1935 to 2025.
1935–2025 print media corpus
🧮 NLTK, timelines & topic models
🌍 Place-based exhibits from Enugu
This site is part of a larger research project on abandoned mines, environmental memory, and community contestation in Eastern Nigeria.
Data & Maps
Corpus, metadata, and cartographic views
Start here to understand the dataset and how it has been structured for mapping and analysis.
Interactive mining map
Navigate a map linking articles to Nigerian localities, mine sites, states, and transnational references.
Timelines & Topics
When do mining issues appear, and how?
These views foreground tempo and vocabulary: which decades are noisy, which are quiet, and what kinds of mining stories dominate public discussion.
Interactive timelines
Explore decade views and an interactive timeline filtered by theme, location, and newspaper.
Topic visualisations
Visualise topic clusters from accidents and compensation to child labour, pollution, and energy nationalism.
Data & Text Mining
NLTK analysis walkthrough
This section foregrounds tokenisation, collocations, TF–IDF, and experiments with topic modelling.
Methods and notebooks
A narrative guide to the Python notebooks used for cleaning, tokenising, and extracting patterns from the mining corpus.
From keywords to eco-criticism
Trace terms such as pollution, child labour, disaster, compensation, and community across newspapers.
Classroom & Community
Teaching with Media Mining Memory
Interactive activities for undergraduate classrooms, community workshops, and reading groups.
Interactive word cloud
An in-class exercise where students explore a dynamic word cloud generated from the mining corpus.
Discussion forum prototype
A simple discussion space for students and community members to post reflections.
Exhibits & Context
From national media to Enugu’s mining afterlives
Move from the national dataset into site-specific storytelling and learn more about the research project.
(Un)Known Memories exhibit
An Enugu-focused digital exhibit weaving together maps, photographs, plans, and media fragments.
About the project & visualisations
Read about the larger dissertation project, data ethics, and design decisions.