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 [...]

Analysing collected data

Just finished with the collection of the data  and ready for the analysis. Kudos to my group.

1000 DONE

I am done of coding 1000 tweets of 5 bloggers and guess what, I am still alive Abdallah

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 [...]

Local newspaper

I am using the local newspaper called “the Dailynews Egypt” for my articles analysis, not copts united. Daniel

More on Amnesty

Kundan  I have just cross checked  the Amnesty international articles and they are not 52, they are 56, so I have labelled from bottom up e.g K1 K2 to K28, from Top down I have labelled M1 to M28 please check the new document.

ID Newspapers

Pick the Number of the Newspaper and than add the next number. Example The first 4 Articles you find in the Daily Mirror: 061, 062, 063, 064 01 Time of India (India) – Karo 02 The Sun (UK) – Karo 03 Daily Mail (UK) – Karo 04 USA Today (USA) – Karo 05 The Wall [...]

Data analysis

With the testing complete, and the collection and coding of both forms of media done, we will start analyzing the numbers and see what we come up with. Thanks again for all the help Phillipp. Best of luck to everyone else. If anyone has any questions or needs help with the steps that we have [...]

Intercoder reliability test done!!

Forst round of test yielded a Krippendorf’s alpha ratio of 0.413 Corrective process and second  reliability Test done for 10 random articles with Krippendorf’s alpha ratio 0.804.

Passed Interreliability Test!!

Good news: we passed the Interreliability Test. So tomorrow we will continue with coding (about 65 articles left)  

Prestesting and decoding of the material done

Dear Phillipp Our team has pretested the social media reaserch materil( which are primarily the tweets) and also the traditional media ( Articles from the news papers ) After doing the reliability test we collected the rest of the data and individually decoded it. have to share our findings and then wait for your instruction  what [...]

Finalizing samples collected

Groups gathered to finalize the samples. Waiting for lecturer’s guidance to move forward.