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Abstract of Team Mali

Abstract of Team Mali

Abstract of Team Mali On the 21st of March 2012, the Malian government was overthrown in a coup d’état by the Malian military. This exploratory study is aimed at exploring the discourse in the media on the coup d’état by analyzing the media narratives from a peace/war journalistic view.  The research covers the time period [...]

Abstract problems

We have some issues to write a proper abstract, not because we have not been there, but because we don’t have final results and a final conclusion due to the qualitative aspect of the study. Our findings and the interpretation will differ from team members to team member.So writing an abstract with the structure that [...]

Starting the interpretation

Today, we created different maps for our analysis. We created one for the general discourse on the coup in Mali. Then we created some a comparison map between newspapers and channels, comparison between. Furthermore, we created three trend maps (one for all sources, one for the newspapers and one for the channels). We agreed on [...]

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 [...]

Work in Progress

I think we on our way to discoveries, data is set and uploaded. All hands on deck tomorrow sailors!

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 [...]

Excelmancer

Ok Guys, I, the amazing EXCELMANCER, now finished all the Excel sheets. I have in total 27 files, all with different data combinations. I rechecked randomly if I screwed up the rows, but so far all the links linked to the right source. BUT PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO RECHECK IT ASWELL. I don’t rlly [...]

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 [...]