Kazakhstan Media

Introduction

Kazakhstan news articles, media sources, topics, entities, and related textual data.

Database Information

Version & Update Information

Current metadata status: Development. Public Explore is not yet enabled. The first release notes will add a version identifier, substantive update date, change summary, expected update cadence, and archive policy.

Codebook

Codebook not available yet

Citation

For provisional reference, cite the Organization of Power Lab as creator of the Kazakhstan Media Database and include the version, access date, and permanent release URL. A final copy-ready citation will be published with the first versioned release.

Data Coverage

The development corpus covers Kazakhstan news articles, media sources, publication dates, topics, named entities, and related textual data. Source-level date ranges, language coverage, missing issues, and reuse restrictions remain to be documented.

Schema

The database is maintained in the PostgreSQL schema `kzmedia`. Its public schema description will identify approved tables, keys, relationships, and derived views after model-to-database verification. A public diagram or SQL artifact will be added when it is ready for release.

Data Sources & Methods

Articles are collected from project-selected media sources and normalized for search and computational analysis. Release documentation will identify each source, collection procedure, language and date normalization, duplicate handling, entity extraction, and validation process.

Current Structure

Configured Explore tools currently include Article Search and Source Browser. No enabled download resource is currently registered. These entries describe the development application surface; release readiness, table coverage, and public fields remain subject to the Database's vertical-slice review.

Planned Expansion

Planned work improves multilingual search, source and entity browsing, structured extraction, and rights-aware research subsets. Full-text and download access will remain subject to source-specific review.

Lab Connections

Approaches

• Text as Data

Publications

• Liberal Framing in Illiberal Regimes: January 2022 Protest Violence in Kazakhstan’s State-Controlled Media — 2025
• Loyal Uncertainty in Authoritarian Media: Elite Conflict and Framing during Kazakhstan’s Qandy Qantar (Bloody January) Protests. — 2025

Research Streams

• Elite Management in Autocracies
• Political Economy of Critical Sectors
• Frame Analysis with LLM
• Named Entity Recognition with LLM
• Sentiment Analysis with LLM

Contributors

• Maiya Talipova
• Martin Chen 陳明浩
• Mukhamejan Bazarov

Grants

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Relevant Literature

See literature for this database in Zotero.