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  • How students engage with the news

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/how-students-engage-with-the-news/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 A report from the US based Project information literacy which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news.

  • Postgraduate programmes

    https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/study/postgraduate

    The University of Leicester offers a number of postgraduate degrees with American Studies.

  • The most dangerous places for a journalist

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/07/the-most-dangerous-places-for-a-journalist/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the  Committee to Protect Journalists  in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the  Guardian Datablog  visualisation graphic.

  • How the BBC is using WhatsApp

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...

  • Countries at the Crossroads 2011

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/countries-at-the-crossroads-2011/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702 Access the full text of this report from Freedom House.

  • Is the Internet racist?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/is-the-internet-racist/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 A trending project called worldwhite.ne t is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’.

  • The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/21/the-closed-prison-and-the-memory-of-everywhere-but-here/

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/24/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • New online feature Access to arts and culture is a basic human right

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/new-online-feature-access-to-arts-and-culture-is-a-basic-human-right

    On Friday 6 February 2015, Michael Attenborough CBE (pictured), well-known theatre director, honorary graduate and son of the late Lord Attenborough braved the cold weather to attend the official start of a build project to create one of the largest dedicated contemporary...

  • The lives and letters of the poor in the nineteenth century

    https://le.ac.uk/own-write/lives-and-letters

    Pauper letters are helping historians write a new ‘history from below' by giving a voice to the ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.

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