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Reporting Conflict: Traditional Media and Social Media Narratives in the Balochistan Conflict (Abstract)

Doing Peace journalism is a difficult thing, especially when the conflict is ongoing.  This study is looking into Balochistan, which represents 44% of Pakistan’s landmass and is rich in mineral and gas wealth. The policies of the Pakistani Government have been to exploit their resources without giving them their due share. This has resulted into [...]

Tables and Results

Results and tables have been created for the social media and the traditional media. The tables indicate the frequencies and the scores of each indicator (WJ/PJ). We tried to look at the table results and hopefully from tomorrow we will start writing the reports after discussing with the professor.

Analysis Done – Now Charting

Analyzing done, working towards making charts/graphs/tables.

The Graphs and charts are almost prepared for anylzing

Hopefully we will have all the realted charts and graphs with enoromous variables and indicators  ready by today and will see what final results we get and will work accordingly

Prestesting and decoding of the material done

Dear Phillipp Our team has pretested the social media reaserch materil( which are primarily the tweets) and also the traditional media ( Articles from the news papers ) After doing the reliability test we collected the rest of the data and individually decoded it. have to share our findings and then wait for your instruction  what [...]

Pretest Data collection

We have done an inter Coder reliability test  for 20 articles from the news papers . pretest should be conducted soon.

Balouch Hal news paper

Dear Philip I just realized that Balouch Hal the first english on line news paper  from baluchistan is banned in pakistan,  how ever it still continues to publish probably from out side pakistan . i had collected about 6 articles from there   but now i really dont know  that should i focus on this news paper [...]

Pretested one of the Articles

pretested an article from The news on our newly developed spreadsheet.It looks fine. I have read three articles from the news paper Baloch Hal as well.Wangchucla is reading the articles from The News . Bradley is looking after the tweets and Aruchi is preparing the final spreadsheet so that we can do few other pretests [...]

Reading Articles and discussing the code manuel

Read the article on peace journalism by Johan Galtung and on A global Standard for reporting conflict and peace by Jake Lynch and Annabel Mcgoldrick.We are discussing the manuel code and have identified the news papers

Difference between the war journalist and peace journalist

While talking about difference between the War journalists and peace journalists Galtung says war journalists tends to concentrate on the physical account, the number of deaths and issues like who wins and who lose where as peace journalism offers an alternative approach to journalists (Galtung, 1998). Peace journalists while giving the physical account of the [...]