Increasing the visibility of Northern Ireland's progress towards peace
TEXT MINING | DATA VISUALIZATION
Data represents the ratio of occurrences of the word "peace" in news articles to the total character count of the articles
London Times articles have the word "peace" most in 1998-2002
No single news publication dominates the discussion of peace
Visualizations of the occurrence of the word "peace" in news articles from four news publications
Corpus of 40 news articles, 10 each from Belfast Telegraph, London Times, Irish Times, New York Times, published since the Good Friday Agreement (1998-2014)
Data represents the ratio of the number of occurrences of "peace" (in white) and "violence" (in semi-transparent black) to the total number of characters per news article
Visualization of the occurrence of "peace" and "violence" in Belfast Telegraph news articles
Corpus of 1,400 news articles, 100 for each year from 1998-2014**
Created with AntConc, Microsoft Excel, Adobe InDesign, and corpus of 1,440 news articles
*Citations
Fawcett, Liz. “Why Peace Journalism Isn’t News.” Journalism Studies 2002: 3(2): 213-223. Web. Routledge, Ltd. 13 April 2015.
Galtung, Johan and Dietrich Fischer. Johan Galtung Pioneer of Peace Research. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. 95-102. Print.
Kee, Robert. Ireland: A History. Butler & Tanner Ltd., London, 1991. Print.
Kallen, Jeffrey L. “War Zone Language: Linguistic Aspects of the Conflict in Northern Ireland.” English Word-Wide (2009). Web. 7 April 2015.
McCabe, Patrick. Breakfast on Pluto. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1998. Print.
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 1st ed. Chesire: Graphics Press, 1982. Print.
UNESCO. “Declaration on the Fundamental Principles concerning the contribution of the Mass Media to Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, to the Promotion of Human Rights and to Countering Racialism, apartheid and incitement to war.” UNESCO.ORG. 28 Nov. 1978. Web. 19 April 2015.
**excluding 2007-2009, as no articles were available for these years
