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

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.

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.

Progress

today we realized that the many eyes program has a data limit, so we can not really use it. however, philipp showed us another similar, but much more professional tool: leximancer, which is much better anyway, as it doesnt have a data limit, has probbly many more functions and is more respected .we just have [...]

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.

Data Collection

Chicago Tribune: Kony Northern Uganda (37 results) kony northern uganda site:chicagotribune.com -blog Huffington Post: Kony (36 results) kony site:huffingtonpost.com -blog LA Times: Kony (52 results -> filter, because blogs are included) kony site:latimes.com -blog NY Times: Kony Northern Uganda (77 results -> filter, one article per day) kony northern uganda site:nytimes.com -blog

NGOs covered

Oxfam-K IRC-K CARE-Mary Danish Refugee Council- Anna Mercy Corps-Justine Human Rights Watch-Barbara Amnesty International-Mary Action Contre la Faim-Anna ICG-K Action Aid-Justine Open Society Forum-Barbara Caritas-Mary Food for the hungry-Anna

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  .

Team members

Our team will be addressing the topic of “Peace and war journalism in the coverage of the Egyptian revolution: Social and traditional media means” Team Leader: Khwatar Mekki Members: Femi Ibrahim Abdallah Hendawy    

Team members

Henry Gidudu (Team Leader) Daniel Ifekru Solomon Obaro Jean Atabong Fomeni Samson Liolio We are working on the dominant framing of War/Peace journalism in the Egyptian revolution. Topic: War or Peace Journalism? The power of the Egyptian revolution Using the Galtung´s  peace theory of journalism, we shall be analyzing several local and international articles published [...]

Team Members

Team Leader -Saima Jasam   Team members : 1) Wangchukla 2)Bradley Castelli 3)Aarushi Prakash

Top ten US newspapers

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and Houston Chronicle.