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Junk News Aggregator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/junk-news-aggregator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 A new resource which aims to track the spread of junk news on Facebook.
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Global Childhood report published
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/10/global-childhood-report-published/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2019 Save the Children has just published its third annual report which examines the condition of children in different nations worldwide.
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Digital Incivility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.
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Surveillance Industry Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry.
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Everyday sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.
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Art under attack 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/art-under-attack-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 Censorship and Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2016 . The annual report b y Freemuse based on 78 countries recorded 1,028 attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2016.
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Global Abortion Policies Database launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/global-abortion-policies-database-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to this new resource created by UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) which enables...
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The Zuckerberg Files
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/the-zuckerberg-files/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Not new but recently upgraded, time to revisit The Zuckerberg Files maintained by UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research .
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What happens when gender quotas are introduced for academic hiring committees?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...
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Striking Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/striking-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 An educational site developed by developed by Dr Sundari Anitha from the University of Lincoln and Professor Ruth Pearson from the University of Leeds in 2013 but worth rediscovering.