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Who uses social media?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/25/who-uses-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 25, 2013 The latest Pew report (covering the USA) provides a snapshot of the social democgraphics of Internet users by categories such as age, race, gender and income: http://www.pewinternet.
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Mapping digital Nigeria
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/mapping-digital-nigeria/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://www.soros.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-nigeria A 96-page report from the Soros Foundation.
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CILIP children’s book medal winners 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/22/cilip-childrens-book-medal-winners-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2017 The CILIP medals have been announced. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2017-winners-announced.php We have the books in stock in our resources collection, floor 1, yellow zone.
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Field Guide to Fake News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/field-guide-to-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election.
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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The largest prison in the world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/19/reflections-on-the-worlds-largest-prison/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...
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IODP Mission-Specific Program (MSP) logging summaries
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/logging-summaries
Logging programmes and the collection of downhole data form an element of all IODP expeditions.
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A global project to help those suffering from chronic lung disease could help millions, say experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/recharge
University of Leicester experts leading a global project to help patients with lung disease believe that millions of people could benefit from their research
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Climbing Mount Sharp: From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2020/07/01/climbing-mount-sharp-from-warm-and-wet-to-cold-and-dry/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 1, 2020 Climbing Mt. Sharp from ancient lake deposits at the the base, to more desiccated, sulphate-rich deposits higher up the mountain.
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Work and the GDPR: The future for algorithms and people analytics?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/09/20/work-and-the-gdpr-the-future-for-algorithms-and-people-analytics/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on September 20, 2018 In this post, Dr Phoebe Moore, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Technology in ULSB, discusses the implications of the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...