Thursday, December 4, 2008

The D Ladies review

D Ladies decided to do their project on qualitative analysis of media coverage of events in Russia during ten days – from 13th to 23rd November 2008. Than they compared particular media, amount of articles and their content and spin. For their project D Ladies used RRS feeds.

The amount of articles is really amazing, it is obvious that it must have taken a lot of work to go through them and write to each important issue relevant abstract. Another thing, which should be mentioned, is new technology being managed by girls. Moreover, it was quite hard to do the project in the number of two people, as was obvious from discussion – I have to appreciate it.

However, there are some things which I miss. At first, in the beginning I wasn’t able to catch the topic which the wiki covered. I would recommend to write some introduction and to explain the aims and goals, which the team wants to get. On the other hand, I liked the introduction of the team and other personal features, which made the wiki not anonymous.

Another thing, which should be mentioned, is an absence of deeper method description. If some research is done, there should be explained, why I choose particular sources, ask some target group etc. Also I missed better conclusion and results of the research. After so many used sources and articles is necessary, in my opinion, to have some final statements.

All in all, with some introduction and conclusion it would be very good wiki, with interesting content and also quite creatively made. Good job

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