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• Media Laws Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/media-laws-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Recently launched by the International Press Institute this site aims to provide journalists with basic knowledge on a country by country basis, of laws, legislation and regulation...

• Are women under-represented in the news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/are-women-under-represented-in-the-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Yes according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project  report which found that they represented only 25% of those heard, read about or seen in the news 2015, the same...

• Refugee use of mobile phones

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones.   It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.

• WoolfNotes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/woolfnotes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 WoolfNotes   is a major digital humanities project led by King’s College London.

• The State of Broadband 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/the-state-of-broadband-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from  (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.

• Paragon Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/paragon-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Institute of Economic Affairs launch Paragon Project The IEA is a free market think tank founded in 1955.

• European Data Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.

• Digital Asia Hub – Launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/digital-asia-hub-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 A new independent, non-profit Internet and society research think tank based in Hong Kong.

• Onlinecensorship.org

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/onlinecensorship-org/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Onlinecensorship.org Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.