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Progress update

Today conducted some modifications on data and tables we have already done before in order to better understand the findings and results. We also wrote an abstract and uploaded it earlier today. My personal progress is,I find it very interesting to read our data in a way that make us understand our topics in different [...]

Starting Analysis

Our group is done with all coding, and now started making the tables and understanding the findings and results of our collected data. by tomorrow we shall be able to start writing our research reports based on the outcomes we have in hands Abdallah

Egypt (Social Media and Traditional Media)

We are all done with coding process and started today our analysis and making tables and charts needed to answer our research questions. Abdallah

1000 DONE

I am done of coding 1000 tweets of 5 bloggers and guess what, I am still alive Abdallah

Progress update (Egypt Tweets)

I bought access to the book tweets  from Tahrir from the Library of Alexandria (www.bibalex.org) DAR project, which gave me access to the book online for 3 days in order to enable me getting more accurate data on the “Tweets from Tahrir” book such as name of bloggers and their exact tweets with the dates. [...]

Top twitters

Horry, I managed to get the list of the top 60 twitters from Tahrir at the time of the revolution. Now I can take the top 5 of them and take 200-250 tweets of them to be the final sample of my paper. The tweeters featured in this list were all featured in the book Tweets [...]

Jake Lynch video on peace journalism (recommended)

This is a very interesting video by Jake Lynch on peace journalism Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9YPYBtpsY Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptw84Za7PLc   Cheers, Abdallah

100 TWEETS

I am just done with coding 100 tweets in the period between 25 of January until 27 of January for Egyptian users!! I did not imagine it would be that tiring and time consuming YET, VERY INTERESTING. I will continue my coding tonight on #Tahrir  and #Egypt for international users Abdallah

Progress Update

I managed to gather 4000 tweets in both languages Arabic and English from national and international twitterers. Horry, I will start coding tonight, its gonna take long and hard work. ABDALLAH

For Arab Spring

For those who are working on the Egyptian revolution (Social Media): below is a link for a book called (Tweets from Tahrir) it gathers all information (tweets) that took place during the 18 days of revolution.  It maybe be useful for your project http://www.amazon.de/Tweets-Tahrir-Egypts-Revolution-Unfolded/dp/1935928457/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333627693&sr=8-1   Abdallah

Team members

Our team will be addressing the topic of “Peace and war journalism in the coverage of the Egyptian revolution: Social and traditional media means” Team Leader: Khwatar Mekki Members: Femi Ibrahim Abdallah Hendawy    

Peace journalism

To my understanding ‘Peace Journalism’ is a sort or type of writing or editing about stories and current events  in a way that make the reader sees the peaceful side of the story and not just plain reporting on the amount of causalities and loses. Abdallah