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2012twit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/2012twit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets.
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European Politics and Policy blog (EUROPP) launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/european-politics-and-policy-blog-europp-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/about-europp/ Launched this week, a new blog from the London School of Economics.
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18 days in Egypt
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/18-days-in-egypt/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 http://beta.18daysinegypt.
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Arab social media report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/21/arab-social-media-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 21, 2012 http://www.dsg.ae/en/asmr3/index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Dubai University has been conducting surveys of the use of social media in the Arab uprising.
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New York Times Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/new-york-times-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms.
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American presidency and social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.
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Mapping Digital Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/mapping-digital-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 The Center for International Media Assistance in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, announced the publication of an interactive map The project examines the global...
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New interactive guide to humanitarian financing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/new-interactive-guide-to-humanitarian-financing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/data-guides/humanitarian-aid-network Based on the Global Humanitarian Assistance reports http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.
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Google public alerts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/google-public-alerts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/publicalerts/ Google is now advertising public service crisis and disaster alerts.
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Bloomberg: UK, credit ratings and CDS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/03/bloomberg-uk-credit-ratings-and-cds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2013 Visualizing the U.K.’s CDS Following Fitch Downgrade The U.K.’s AAA credit rating was reduced by Fitch on April 19.