Tracking Cultural Differences In News Video Creation

Many videos on the Web are created in different countries about the same international event. Their specialized video content, as well as their viewing and reposting rates, reflect different cultural interests. Effectively tracking cross-cultural visual memes of the same event, in online video repositories of different cultures, can provide users with a more comprehensive understanding of an international event. We propose a new way to use the PageRank algorithm to model cross-cultural visual meme influence, which more accurately captures the rates at which visual memes are re-posted in a specified time period in a specified culture.