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• Are emojis sexist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly  Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for  13 proposed designs to...

• Alumni Awards Dinner

  https://le.ac.uk/alumni/join-us/events/award-winners-showcase

  Biographies of past winners of University of Leicester Alumni Awards

• Elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/1633/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Those interested in elections might like the: Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP) Database  a quantitative database maintained by...

• Personal data and elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/personal-data-and-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 The Influence Industry: The Global Business of Using Your Data in Elections.

• Syrian Archives Chemical weapons database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/syrian-archives-chemical-weapons-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 The Syrian Archive aims to support human rights investigators, advocates, media reporters and journalists in their efforts to document human rights violations in Syria.

• Global military spending is rising.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/global-military-spending-is-rising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ).

• South-South Galaxy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/10/south-south-galaxy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2019 A new website launched the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC). The project intends to give support to countries of the South, so they can share best practice and knowledge.

• Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week   Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.

• Audit of Political Engagement in UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/audit-of-political-engagement-in-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 2014 Audit of Political Engagement released by the Hansard Society This annual report considers knowledge, understanding,  engagement and participation in politics by the British public.

• How do the media create and spreads stories?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud.   This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.