Coding Sheet

Instructions

News Stories

Categories with Assigned Codes

Codes

1

Name of the Publication

ANM (Asia News Monitor) 1

Write number assigned to the publication i.e. 2 = China Daily.

CD (China Daily) 2

NYT (New York Times) 3

WSJ (Wall Street Journal) 4

2

Size of the Story

Small X ≤ 300 words … 1

Write number for small, medium, or large story.

Medium 300 < X < 600 words … 2

Large X > 600 words … 3

3

War on Terror Frame

Yes 1

No 2

If “War on terror” frame as a global effort against terrorism was initiated by US government and was adopted by rest of the world to combat violence within is present in the story?

4

Depth of Coverage

If the story narrates what happened or uses dramatic adjectives only then it’s episodic if it connects the incident with past stories and incidents then it must be coded thematic.

Episodic 1

To be decided on above given definitions and coded by coder.

Thematic 2

5

Analogies

If the incident has historically been linked with some previous incident i.e. 9/11.

No Analogy/Historical Context 1

Past Terror Incident 2

Past Rights Movement 3

Other Historical Incident 4

Number of Analogies used should also be recorded.

6

Blame/ Victimization

Either Xinjiang people or Chinese government or Global terrorism is blamed for the incident. If the blame has been neutralized between two of the actors then it should be coded as to first actor named in the article.

No Blame 1

If anyone has been blamed in the story for causing the incident.

Xinjiang People blamed 2

China Government Policies in Xinjiang 3

Global Terrorism 4

7

Evaluation of the Incident

Coder will see if some kind of Evaluation frame has been used in the story in order to determine the motive of the attack and whether the attack has been condemned as terrorism or approved by the article as an act of resistance.

Evil Terrorists 1

Diplomacy vs. Terrorism 2

Freedom Movement 3

Extremist vs. Sufi Muslim Uyghurs 4

Global Terror vs. Sole Act of Violence 5

Resistance to Unfair Policies 6