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Social Media and the Vatican
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/social-media-and-the-vatican/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Social Media and the Vatican The canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April was a social media event. A special website was created .
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Social media and universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
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Media in the Age of Cybersurveillance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/media-in-the-age-of-cybersurveillance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 What is the nature, extent and impact of Internet surveillance on journalism? This question is considered in a new report Watching the watchdogs just released by CIMA (Center for...
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British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/british-soviet-relations-in-the-cold-war-1943-53-new-declassified-documents-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 The documentary evidence project , which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences, among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign...
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Living Home Standard launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/living-home-standard-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing...
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Well-being of the aged
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/wellbeing-of-the-aged/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 The Global Agewatch Index From HelpAge International ranks nations worldwide on their environment for older persons.
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Do mobile phones effect student learning?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.
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Sexual Identity Data UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/sexual-identity-data-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 The Office for National Statistics is now collecting sexual identity estimates based on social survey data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and has published it as a...
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Is Britain a socially mobile nation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/is-britain-a-socially-mobile-nation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Find out with the latest annual report form the Social Mobility Commission.
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Freedom in the World report 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/freedom-in-the-world-report-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings for civil liberties in nations worldwide. The report also has a useful graphic map of freedoms.