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• Campaign for Media Pluralism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/campaign-for-media-pluralism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 UK Coalition for Media Pluralism launches online campaign video Here is a petition calling for greater media diversity, increased competition.

• Global Peace Index 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and  ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.

• Media freedom in Europe

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/media-freedom-in-europe/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Map of Media Freedom in Europe Index on Censorship and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are joining forces to map the state of media freedom in Europe.

• Where is the best place to be a working woman?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.

• Truthy project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.

• Liberation Technology

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/10/liberation-technology/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2011 A research programme based at Stanford University which is exploring how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote...

• ICON – International Coalition on Newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/05/10/icon-international-coalition-on-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2011 http://icon.crl.edu/about.htm A consortium of member libraries (mainly USA based who are seeking to preserve and improved access to newspapers worldwide).

• United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/united-nations-social-development-network-unsdn/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://unsdn.

• Urban Gems/Happiness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/urban-gemshappiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://urbangems.org/   A new academic project that aims to crowd source what citizens like about cities and what makes them happy.

• Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-credit-default-swaps/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data.