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• Citizen journalism websites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/citizen-journalism-websites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Guardian Witness https://witness.guardian.co.uk/  A new site for citizens to share news photos and views.

• UK Election Polls

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/uk-election-polls/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 Why were the general election polls wrong? Now the election votes have been counted, commentators are asking why many of the polls were wrong.

• Can social media predict election results?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/can-social-media-predict-election-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.

• Global Terrorism database updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/global-terrorism-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism...

• British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/british-soviet-relations-in-the-cold-war-1943-53-new-declassified-documents-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 The documentary evidence project , which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences,  among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign...

• Other useful Cold War websites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/other-useful-cold-war-websites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive .

• Social Media and the Olympics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/social-media-and-the-olympics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 A great example of the use of Instagram to highlight street art in Rio.

• Arabic Journalism Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...

• Trust and Truth in Media organisations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/trust-and-truth-in-media-organisations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 First Draft is a new coalition of news organisations, including the Washington Post, which is  seeking to raise standards in reporting focussing specifically on the...

• USA Presidential debates new resources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/usa-presidential-debates-new-resources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Following on from last week’s list of resources . Here are some more new discoveries.