{"id":1670,"date":"2017-02-01T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:19:39","slug":"collecting-syria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/2017\/02\/01\/collecting-syria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting #Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dataset compiled many tweets on Syria, many of which have to do with the current refugee issue.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see the trends through various media platforms (particularly twitter) to understand what is going on in the minds of the people about the Syrian Refugees. \u00a0This hashtag also\u00a0interests me because it\u00a0comprises what is the most popular and controversial topic of the year.\u00a0 The new president (Donald Trump) has created controversy with his executive order to deny the entry of Refugees from various other countries, into the United States.\u00a0 With this executive order, and other decisions the president has made early in his term at office, the results done nothing more than create a social media backlash at the presidency.\u00a0 I feel these tags will be the most interesting right now.<\/p>\n<p>When I first looked at the archived tweets in the Google spreadsheet, I expected to see a lot of peoples opinions&#8211;particularly angry ones. While there are a handful of those, the most popular thing people tweeted about were other news articles or current events, more or less using twitter to keep people informed about the situation. \u00a0The search also scraped many tweets in other languages so it is difficult to put an overall label on the tweets returned in my search.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/10cXm1jnLBv9368QHF2uxQsA7BtpStHKD7g3n-4Xa8D0\/pubhtml?gid=400689247&#038;amp;single=true&#038;amp;widget=true&#038;amp;headers=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Staff, Times Of Israel, Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross, Marissa Newman, Joshua Davidovich and Times of Israel Staff, Cathryn J. Prince, AFP and Times of Israel Staff, Afp, Eric Cortellessa, AP and Times of Israel Staff, Raoul Wootliff, Times of Israel Staff and Agencies, Agencies and Times of Israel Staff, Stuart Winer, Times of Israel Staff and AP, Tamar Pileggi, and David Horovitz. &#8220;Israel Said Readying to Take in 100 Orphaned Syrian Refugees.&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Times of Israel<\/i>. N.p., 25 Jan. 2017. Web. 01 Feb. 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protests As Travellers Detained At US Airports, Including 50 In Dallas.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Pedestrian.TV<\/i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As of this week, #Syria is a very hefty topic in the mainstream media. \u00a0As of this week Israel will allow immigration of 100 Syrian refugee orphan children into the country, providing temporary homes and food for the children, along with any close relatives to the children. \u00a0In other news, protests erupted at airports across the country as travelers coming from certain countries were detained upon arrival in the States. Dallas Fort-Worth Airport detained at least 50 people attempting to enter the country; one family was from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/16\/world\/middleeast\/syria-hospital-airstrike-doctors-without-borders.html?_r=0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/saudi-arabia-and-turkey-rolling-back-on-rhetoric-to-send-troops-into-syria\/2016\/02\/15\/574edfd4-85cc-4ce2-bf18-4a70bea0fc7d_story.html?utm_term=.11cdc682e485<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Syria was a war zone. \u00a0Kurdish militias fought\u00a0Turkey who wanted to clear their expansion into the area\u00a0by setting out on multiple attacks over the course of a few days. \u00a0The hospitals became overflown with the sick and injured including many men women and children. \u00a0The doctors without borders hospitals become a very hectic and dangerous place during the conflict. Rockets and explosives were directed at clinics leaving as many as 10 people dead. \u00a0Also, about 500,000 Lebanese Refugees continuously entered Syria after Israeli Airstrikes drove them from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>CNN<\/i>. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Through this assignment I feel that I am collecting live data. \u00a0Because of how sensitive and unfortunate the issues surrounding my hashtag topic are, I cannot possibly fathom what those directly affected are going through. I am merely scraping data and interpreting it to yield information on the subject. \u00a0By using these tools and compiling the archived tweets I can see exactly how this is playing out, for others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"highlight selected\">Marr<\/span>es, Noortje, and Esther Weltevrede. 2013. \u201cScraping the Social?\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Cultural\u00a0Economy<\/em>\u00a06 (3): 313\u201335<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dataset compiled many tweets on Syria, many of which have to do with the current refugee issue. 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