Work Progress Thursday

Today,  we (the whole group) decided on the next steps: 1) We have to extract the data. Instead of using the whole database we will only take out the texts which were used between 20.3.2012 until 28.3.2012. Furthermore, we will onyl take the tweets which were posted in English. Chika tries to fulfill this tasks! [...]

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

Work Progress

Colloected data from NGOs (ACF and  DRC) within the specific date 16 Jan – 20 Oct on Libya conflict no data was found on the webpage of  food for the Hungry(FH) on lybia between this date limite.  I have seven ariticles from the two organisations within this date. Right now i am Categorising the articles into seria numbers, organisation name, [...]

Data Collection in Progress

Topic formulated. Functions distributed. Data collection in progress.

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 .    

Let’s get our manuals together

Team, it’s time to get these coding manuals ready!! We’ll need one for the articles and one for the tweets.. 123go

Formation of group

Yesterday group formation done with Saima Jasem as team leader. Done printing of “A global standard for reportingconflict and peace” by Jake Lynch and Annabel Mc Goldrick and circulated to groups. We have discuused on framing and developed spreadsheets. At night read some articles by Lynch and Annabel. i have accessed to the news of [...]

War/Peace journalism in the Egyptian revolution

We are creating a table, using the peace journalism theory; the outcome will help filter our sources report on the Egyptian Revolution into peace or war journalism.

Workload distribution

We have split up our work load, and once we get our excel sheets done, we’ll start the research.   Bradley will be looking at Tweets Saima will be looking at news articles from Balouch Hal Wangchukla is looking at articles from the Pakistani daily, The News Aarushi is looking at articles from the Pakistani [...]

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  

TEAM BALOUCHISTAN

We are making the coding manual for the traditional media (DAWN /Pakistan).  

Work Progress Mali Wednesday

Yesterday Chika, Rine, Karo and me started to get familiar with Leximancer. We communicated over Facebook to help each other with individual questions. Chika already uploaded data that will (most likly) be important for our work and sent around material which helped the rest of us.   I used the time yesterday to look into [...]