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News Trends, Finally

        Now I understood how to export the trend, thanks chika. I have attached the pictures, and below you can see some info about how the google news trends work. However, it is contradicting info about whether or not the numbers on the graph are scaled or not, have to figure that [...]

News Trend

i see that my earlier post didnt work… I have tried to make a google news trend analysis of Mali for the last 30 days, and it looks good, and the peak is exactly the days we have chosen -> good justification for the papers. however, i can not export or copy the chart… and it [...]

Upload Complete

Me and Claire have now uploaded all the data into leximancer. But, before you start playing around: read this! there are two folders, trial and original: only work in trial for now! we save original for the final version. DONT use the PROJECT that is called trial -> make your own project in the trial [...]

todays tasks

While the others are finalizing their data collection, I am now working on putting all off the articles in two excell sheets, one for the most sold newspapers, and one for the most trusted, so that it is easier to compare them later in leximancer. I also thought that it might be good to sort [...]

My collected data

newspaper.data-sheet here’s the excell sheet I created today. some of the articles are very short, but that’s just the way it is… night

Progress + Distribution of New News Sources

Hey guys, I have here documented some of the progress of today, and also what I have found. I am now done with my data search, and the others will finish tomorrow or tonight, before we upload it into Leximancer. At the bottom of this post, everyone can check their news sources for the last [...]

Most Trusted News

As Karo will report on todays “progress” later, I’ll just post about the most recent updates. As the 18 top newspapers in the world by average circulation did not produce enough articles on Mali, we decided to include four major news sources. as I found a study of the most trusted newssources in ten major [...]

Problems…

Hi all, please read all of this: I have spent the day looking through the different settings in leximancer, and the good news is that i now have figured out how the majority of them works, and I was able to set some of our settings right (my internet died when i was almost done, [...]

Sources

Hey guys! thought it might be good to have all sources and tools in one place so that we have easy access and some system. and if you find additional ones, feel free to post more as an answer to this post.   Here’s the link to Leximancer’s academic publications, thought it was good to [...]

Progress

today we realized that the many eyes program has a data limit, so we can not really use it. however, philipp showed us another similar, but much more professional tool: leximancer, which is much better anyway, as it doesnt have a data limit, has probbly many more functions and is more respected .we just have [...]

Movie: The Bang Bang Club

As I mentioned in class, I have a really good movie about these two weeks’ topic. The Bang Bang Club is a true story portraying the life and work of four war photographers and the way they cover the final days of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The main topic is the ethical dilemmas they face [...]

Definition

Peace journalism recognizes that most journalism has a value bias towards violence and war, and includes practical methods for correcting this. However, to be more than just not war journalism, I believe that peace journalism should do more than just reporting facts. It should value non-violent responses to conflict, uncover underlying causes, and give a [...]