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Catalonia Referendum Results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/catalonia-referendum-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The Catalan News Monitor is a useful English language site created by Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir , an umbrella organisation of more than 700 associations campaigning for the...
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How many times a day do you look at your phone?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-look-at-your-phone/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 http://www.tecmark.co.
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State of Bitcoin 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/state-of-bitcoin-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 The latest report from Coin Desk stated that in 2014 Bloomberg regarded Bitcoin as the worst performing currency.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute. It is mapping ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.
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Journalism and Discourse Studies launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/journalism-and-discourse-studies-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 This new open access journal is published by Newcastle University. It aims to offer a forum for the publication of studies covering critical discourse analysis and journalism.
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What institutions do people trust?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-institutions-do-people-trust/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer surveyed 33,000 people in 27 countries on their trust in the institutions of government, media, business and NGOs.
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What is the world’s most influential think tank?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-is-the-worlds-most-influential-think-tank/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 Find out by checking the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania .
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Accuracy of web-based news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/accuracy-of-web-based-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 How news websites spread rumours Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content – a new report from the Tow Center examines the role of journalists .
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1979 elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/1979-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Rewind to the 1979 elections #79 rewind from the Open University is tweeting stories from the 1979 campaign to examine how they correspond with current issues.
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Academy Awards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/academy-awards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 To mark the recent Oscars, here is some social science related research! Study the rhetoric (and find out which award winners cried) by consulting Who thanked Who a database of all...