What's News? Week # 1

It had been a bit more than a week since I first started this project. My aim is to analyse how I get effected by the daily news. I simply use the open-source application ODK Collect in order to gather the news articles I read and then I simply scale how I feel from one (shitty) to five (astronomic feelings). Photo 1 shows us the steps to take in the app to collect the data and map it.

Currently I created "What's New" form in Turkish, however my other mapping projects are all in English. I will briefly define all the steps.

 

Step 1: Connect to ODK

Step 2: Enter your nick name

Step 3: Enter the news source (BBC, Guardian etc.)

Step 4: Enter the title

Step 5: Enter the link to the news article

Step 5: Select the main topic of the news (Environment, Politics, Culture etc)

Step 6: Scale how you felt after reading the news article

Step 7: Define your feeling if you want

Step 8: Enter the location of the news (Istanbul, Turkey etc.) (Not your location bu the focus of the news)

Step 9: Automatically save the date and send the form

Below you can also see that the news that are coded as 1 are dominating my daily life by 61%. The dominating feeling is anger by 13%. It is followed by helplessness and insecurity.

 

Visit the web page to see the interactive map and the visualisations.

nataliarslan.com/journal/2016/9/22/whats-new

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