ebeshero
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7 years ago After class today, @ajnewton1 , @Samantha-Mcguigan, and @jonhoranic met with @RJP43 and me (@ebeshero), to discuss what to do next. @gretchenuhrinek was notably absent.
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[ ] @jonhoranic will produce some basic XML markup on the four articles posted here so there's a common structural approach to all the documents, and post the files to this GitHub repo so everyone can pull them in.
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[ ] Once he's done that everyone should read these together in XML and think about the markup strategy. Returning to first principles, from your team's initial proposal post, consider your strategy for markup:
Possible things that could be marked up in the articles may be:
adjective and adverb use outside of direct quotations, and whether or not these words typically register a positive or negative emotion
sources and source credibility
use of statistics in the articles
age, gender, sex, and race of speakers, subjects, and journalists
Ideally, this markup would help reveal the integrity of news organizations and could perhaps be used as a sort of "truth finder" or something.- [ ] Next week's meeting should be about
- defining your markup strategy by working out your Relax NG schema.
- what other news topics you want to investigate in common: @ajnewton1 and I had an idea for scraping related news articles on the same topics that might bring in larger quantities, but we'll talk about that again next week.
Right now, the markup strategy should come first, together with refining your selection principle (what kinds of articles do you want to process in [X] way?)
jonhoranic
Just to get this started, here are some articles I found that covered the Women's March on Jan. 21:
I found that it was helpful to refine my search on each site so I only got results from the day of the event, and then I sifted through those results to find articles that covered the primary event itself.
I think that our best course of action right now is for each of us to go through those four articles and consider how each one is different.
For instance, the Fox article starts off with, "Wearing pink, pointy-eared 'pussyhats' to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women massed in the nation's capital and cities around the globe Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won't let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years." The BBC article's opening is, "Millions of protesters have taken to the streets of cities in the US and around the globe to rally against the new US President Donald Trump."
There's definitely a huge disparity between the two openings, but what causes it? Is it the sentence structure, the word choice, the imagery? Think about that as you go through these articles and comment on how you think we should go about marking up articles for this project.
@ajnewton1 @Samantha-Mcguigan @jonhoranic @RJP43