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• Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/mexico-turns-to-social-media-for-information-and-survival/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 Mexicans are using social media sites such as twitter and face book to exchange information about violence, areas to avoid. Key examples are Wikinarco – https://www.wikinarco.

• Peace Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.

• 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.

• European Foreign Policy Scorecard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/european-foreign-policy-scorecard/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 http://ecfr.eu/scorecard/2012/ Published annually by European Council on Foreign Relations since 2010.

• Year in Hate and Extremism 2011

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/year-in-hate-and-extremism-2011/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring Released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

• 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.

• 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...

• Syria’s internet blackout

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/syrias-internet-blackout/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications.

• Human Rights Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/human-rights-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 http://hrwa.cul.columbia.

• Bloomberg: Tracking Emerging-Market Holdings of U.S. Debt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/24/bloomberg-tracking-emerging-market-holdings-of-u-s-debt/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2013 Portfolio outflows from emerging markets sparked a sell-off in currencies from India’s rupee to Brazil’s real.