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 !!!!!!
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Collecting Data from The Independent
I am currently collecting data from the Independent News Paper. It must be mentioned inline with the tradition of collecting data that getting access freely into home pages of virtually all the papers are of immense challenges. Despite the challenges though the work is progressing.
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
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 .
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
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