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The Egyptian Revolution 2011: Peace and War Journalism in the Traditional and Social Media (Abstract)

Due to the extraordinary roles the social media played in reporting the Egyptian revolution, this study sets our to examine the journalistic of reportage employed. This research seeks to carry out a comparative study of styles of reportage of the revolution by both the social and traditional media, and whether it is framed as Peace [...]

Progress / Neutral Scoring

Working on the tables. How would I consider the 50/50 Peace/War Journalism,  shall i create an additional category and call it neutral or balanced?

Progress

Finished with the coding process , Now we are working on the analysis , and trying to find connection/ variation  between the traditional and social media , and the international and national media  .    

Progress

DONE with the coding test for 2 coders and 3 coders , the persent of the agreement are 100 , 90 , and 80 persent , now  we are going ahead with the coding for the rest of the data accordigly .  

Progress

We finished collecting the data for our  project  , that include the traditional media national and international , and the social media (tweets) . Currently we are  conducting  the ReCal3 test for 8 English langusge Articls , and the Recal2 for another 8 Arabic language articles , and 100 tweets .  

Progress Update

Finished reading /translating/coding 24 article from Egyptian local News paper El -Srouk, I never thought that my mother language will defeate me and consume that much time  !!!!!!

Multi-articles In one News Paper about the same Issue!!

There are between 3-5 articles in one news paper talking about the same issue, the differences is only the reporter and the location , eg ( article 1 is about the revolution in Cairo , and article 2 is about the revolution in El Exandria ..etc ) , do we look at all of them [...]

Coding process

The team finalized the coding sheet , and we are going ahead with the data collections.  I am reading and coding 18 articles from a local Egyptian news paper name El Shorouk .    

Peace Journalism is a ” CHOICE ” a choice a reporter make on presenting which face of the same coin he/she look at and view .