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• Smart phone usage USA 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/smart-phone-usage-usa-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 According to the Pew Research Center, nearly two thirds of Americans now depend on their smart phones for daily life.  Download the Pew survey results for the full data.

• Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to  cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.

• Press freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/press-freedom-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 To mark World Press Freedom day, UNESCO adopted the Riga Declaration .  This affirms the importance of free journalism for sustainable development.

• UK Elections: voter’s regret

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/uk-elections-voters-regret/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 Voter’s regret An interesting fact has been the surge in LibDem membership applications since the election .  The Conversation discusses the psychology of voter regret.

• Is the electoral system broken?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society  the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.

• Spare Rib online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/spare-rib-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 British library have launched a searchable digital archive of all 239 issues of Spare Rib, the influential feminist magazine which was published from 1972-1993.

• LGBT Hate crime under-reported

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.

• World refugee day 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/world-refugee-day-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Find out why we need to support refugees by consulting the UNHCR Global Trends report  2015. More than 65.

• Mentions of Trident on Historical Hansard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/21/mentions-of-trident-on-historical-hansard/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2016 Blog post on the Talking Humanities blog analyses the use of the word  Trident in parliamentary debate: https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.

• Where is the worst place to be a journalist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/where-is-the-worst-place-to-be-a-journalist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 According to the 2016 Index produced annually by The Committee to Protect Journalists    Somalia tops the rankings.