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Structure of the Research Paper

All our research related stuff seems to be in order.. We have an idea about how to structure this paper, so that’s probably what we’ll start doing once the tables are refined and formatted for word, and once I listen to “misery” by soul asylum.    

Data analysis

We have started the data analysis process.. tons of numbers, lots of variables to compare and contrast. Hopefully tomorrow we get back to the theory part and get some charts done. Allez team baluch! Pakistan zindabad mfs!! And welcome back Karin

Data analysis

With the testing complete, and the collection and coding of both forms of media done, we will start analyzing the numbers and see what we come up with. Thanks again for all the help Phillipp. Best of luck to everyone else. If anyone has any questions or needs help with the steps that we have [...]

Very informative little video

http://www.samaa.tv/samaavideolist.aspx?ID=4068

Traditional Media intercoder reliability.

We have started to do this reliability stuff, and it’s taking a very long time. We started doing the independent testing and will hopefully get everything ready to send into ReCal tonight.. Then tomorrow, if everything goes well with this test, we’ll move on to the social media reliability discussion and test.. Hopefully all this [...]

Meeting

Meeting today at 11 to go over the pretests, figure out Saima’s banned newspaper issue and start the data collection.. Hopefully Aruchi’s awake.. I’ll be my regular five minutes late.

One coding manual finished

So our social media coding manual is done… We also have both our excel sheets ready to be filled up with the relevant info.. Thanks to Phillipp, one of our formulas is working well, but the other one still needs to be fixed as we’re a bit useless with this stuff.. But I’m hoping we [...]

Let’s get our manuals together

Team, it’s time to get these coding manuals ready!! We’ll need one for the articles and one for the tweets.. 123go

Workload distribution

We have split up our work load, and once we get our excel sheets done, we’ll start the research.   Bradley will be looking at Tweets Saima will be looking at news articles from Balouch Hal Wangchukla is looking at articles from the Pakistani daily, The News Aarushi is looking at articles from the Pakistani [...]

Tips for twitter searches

  My dear colleagues, Using archivist.visitmix.com allows you to narrow down potential search words that can be used for topsy.com searches.   Love, Bradley  

Peace Journalism Definition

Peace Journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – of what stories to report, and how to report them – which create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict. It uses conflict analysis and transformation to update the concepts of balance, fairness and accuracy in reporting. The [...]