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Soul City 4 Evaluation - Media Monitoring and Analysis Objectives

Summary

  • To assess the impact of the Soul City intervention (holistically seen), on media coverage nationally.
  • Specific focus on media advocacy strategy in partnership with the NNVAW
    • Violence Against Women,
    • Domestic Violence



Media Monitoring

June 1999 - December 1999

Mainstream media,

editorial coverage

  • Print media,
  • Electronic Media
  • (Community media in the Sentinel Sites)



Search Terms

“Soul City” mention

“Violence Against Women” / (NNVAW) / “Women abuse” / “Domestic Violence”

Database

Data capturing

  • Media coverage
  • Soul City / NNVAW media advocacy strategy outputs

    press releases / briefings



Reliability

  • Inter-rater agreement
  • blinded coders
  • Krippendorf's alpha each category and overall



Analysis

  • Quantitative surges in relation to Soul City / NNVAW media advocacy strategy, plus ...
  • Content analysis of “deeper codes”
  • Journalists / media - impact ?
  • Discourse analysis - “frames”

Contact

Sue Goldstein
Executive, South Africa Programmes
Soul City: Institute for Health and Development Communication
South Africa
Fax: 086 661 3145 or 011 341 0370

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Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site September 30 2000
Last Updated November 14 2008



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