(Happy) Easter research Project
Today, my team has decided to cut easter celebration short and start the pre-pre-testing.
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Top twitters
Horry, I managed to get the list of the top 60 twitters from Tahrir at the time of the revolution. Now I can take the top 5 of them and take 200-250 tweets of them to be the final sample of my paper. The tweeters featured in this list were all featured in the book Tweets [...]
Progress
Date collection: Done Total newspapers: 20 (14 Liberals; 14 Conservatives; 2 Centrists) Total articles: 101 (60 liberal; 35 conservative; 5 centrist) Coding manuel: In progress Next step: Reading though examples of PJ articles and Intercoder Reliability test manual; group pre-pre-test
Peace vs. War Journalism Examples
Here are the examples we’ve discussed in the lecture today: Conflict sensitive journalism
Inter Coder Reliability Test
http://matthewlombard.com/reliability/
Jake Lynch video on peace journalism (recommended)
This is a very interesting video by Jake Lynch on peace journalism Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9YPYBtpsY Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptw84Za7PLc Cheers, Abdallah
Coding – Important Notice!
Hi everyone, it’s great to hear that some of you have already started with the coding. However, the plan was for you to first double-check with me if the coding-sheet is ok, applicable and comprehensive. I’d suggest you do some test-runs and a pre-coding, but wait with the final coding of the articles. Except: you’re [...]
Open Society Foundation and Human Rights Watch
Hi Kundan, Thank you for the Workneh paper. Kindly note that on our research topic and the time frame given Open Society Foundation has 19 blogs 92 press releases. Seems not to become borring… Best Barbara
Tips for twitter searches
My dear colleagues, Using archivist.visitmix.com allows you to narrow down potential search words that can be used for topsy.com searches. Love, Bradley
Put Abstract Information Into a Human Context
Claire just dug out out an interesting TED Talk by Jer Thorp. http://www.ted.com/talks/jer_thorp_make_data_more_human.html Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. At TEDxVancouver, he shares his moving projects, from graphing an entire year’s news cycle, to mapping the way people share articles across the internet.
Retrieving older Tweets
If you’re looking for tweets that date back further than 6-9 days, you wont find them on twitter anymore. Instead you could try http://topsy.com. TOPSY does not only offer real time search for the social media, but also an extensive archive of tweets that date back several months or even years.
Team Topic
Our team is working on the topic of : After the resolution passed by the US congress , has the media , in Pakistan been escalating the Baloch conflict or resolving it ? We will be looking into the traditional media as well as the social media .
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