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• World Service Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/06/17/world-service-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive The BBC World Service archive of radio podcasts provides access to documentaries.

• Database of Terrorist Incidents

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/02/database-of-terrorist-incidents/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2011 https://wits.nctc.gov/FederalDiscoverWITS/index.do?N=0 The National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC) maintains the US Government’s database on terrorist attacks.

• Politics twitter feeds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/28/politics-twitter-feeds/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 28, 2011 Politicker USA   http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place.

• Digital Wildfire

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/digital-wildfire/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 This interesting ESRC-funded project    is examining (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance in the digital world.

• How many times a day do you check your phone?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-check-your-phone/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 According to the latest  Ofcom communications report people in the UK now check their smartphones, on average, every 12 minutes of the waking day.

• What should we do about Fake News?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/what-should-we-do-about-fake-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 This  week   the   LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission launched its report.

• GEMMES

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/gemmes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 An economic modelling tool designed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)  for understanding the effects of climate change on the economy.

• Learning Curve- how do education systems rank?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/learning-curve-how-do-education-systems-rank/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/  New resource from Pearson and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

• Syria’s internet blackout

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/syrias-internet-blackout/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications.

• Google public alerts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/google-public-alerts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts.