Cross-Comparative Media Analysis
The news doesn't report people.
It constructs them.
Article, Deconstructed presents a single news story as reported by four major media outlets simultaneously. Visitors move through each version side by side — same facts, radically different constructions. This exhibition invites you to slow down, to notice language choices, to ask who is centred and who is marginalised in each telling.
Each selected story is stripped to its essential elements: who is named, what verbs are used, what images accompany the text, what goes unsaid. Using computational text analysis alongside close reading, Synapse Studio maps how meaning is distributed — and withheld — across outlets. The methodology is published in full and open to scrutiny.
Media literacy is not about distrust. It is about precision. When we see how the same person can be a "suspect," a "community member," or "a source" depending on outlet and agenda, we understand that journalism constructs reality as much as it reflects it. This exhibition is a calibration tool for critical reading.
Synapse Studio is an independent research and design collective working at the intersection of data journalism, critical theory, and interactive media. Founded in 2019, the studio has produced exhibitions, installations, and editorial projects for cultural institutions across Europe and North America.
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