Academic Sources
All the Academic Sources have now been compiled into a document which will be useful too strengthen if the newspapers have a conservative/liberal or centrtic political leaning.
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A bit philosophy dedicated to my “Team”
The “Team” The team gets up each morning, and head off to seminar III. From coding to abstract, We take a step closer to our goal. Our work is broken down, as we focus on each task. We have combine hard work, with skills and throw in some passion, and we’ll surely succeed. It [...]
Abstract..graphs.. litterature review
Here we are almost on the goal line! The next coming hours will be to look at our data from different perspective, writing abstract for the paper and starting to gather our informatino for our littertaure review. In addition we will add our academic sources in a spreadsheet. Go team!
Excel, Formulas …
Done with calculating averages for every indicator/total score and newspapers … Therefore we are ready to do all the diagrams we need for discussions tomorrow!
Feels great to be back home by the goats and an awesome team
Back in Schlaning! Happy to be welcomed back to the House International and a very efficent and discpline working group! I have been updated through email from Billy on the progress of the group. Impressed! The coding is now finished and we are now moving on to calculate each articles average/mean and in addition looking at potential graphs [...]
Passed Interreliability Test!!
Good news: we passed the Interreliability Test. So tomorrow we will continue with coding (about 65 articles left)
Reliability Test
… I checked the program ReCal3.0 (for multiple coders, but only 1 variable) – it is also recommended on this “Matthew Lombard”-page … pretty easy (did a first test run) … tmw when we do the test, all 3 of us fill out the Excel-Coding-Sheet we have already (afterwards I just copy our 3 files [...]
Useful sources
PDF format of the Intercoder Reliability Manual: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/Research/methods/lombard_reliability.pdf Useful document for content analysis and more: http://amecorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Media-Content-Analysis-Paper.pdf
Kony 2012: Part II: Beyond famous
I just saw this link and decided to share especially with the Kony Group, just in case they are yet to see it. I hope it makes some sense. Thanks.
Northern Uganda conflict historical backgroud in 10 minutes
This short documentary gives a quick but rich historical background of the Northern Ugandan conflict. Take a look at it.
Progress
Data collection: 81 out of 100 news articles already collected. 19 togo before we start the content analysis. 22 Newspapers investigated: 8 liberals (44 articles); 10 consetvatives (29 articles); 4 centrist (8 articles)
Kony group set and ready to go!
Research questions formulated, theory agreed on, newspapers chosen, Roles distributed. Now at the stage of collecting data. The real work begins.
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