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• 49% of adults in the UK use social media for news

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/49-of-adults-in-the-uk-use-social-media-for-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Fascinating fact from the Latest Ofcom news consumption in the UK annual report. Yet only 37% trust social media. Get the full facts by downloading the report from the website.

• Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report  is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.

• 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.

• Syria digital security monitoring project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/syria-digital-security-monitoring-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 http://syria.secdev.com/   Maintained by the SecDev Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit organization. It aims to provide tools to encourage digital openness in Syria.

• Lad’s mags

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/lads-mags/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 The Cooperative Supermarket s have called for a number of men’s magazines to tone down or remove  images of women from their covers.

• Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/24/economic-and-social-commission-for-asia-and-the-pacific/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2014 ESCAP digital publications Free access to its flagship publication Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific starting with the first edition published in 1948 and continuing...

• Hunger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/hunger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Hunger in Britain today The conclusion of  The report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquir y into Hunger in the United Kingdom was published this week.

• How can social media be used in emergencies?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/how-can-social-media-be-used-in-emergencies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 The Communication and Complex Emergencies Project is a collaboration between the University of Adelaide’s Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) and the Australian...

• 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.

• Where do rich people live? Are they getting wealthier?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/where-do-rich-people-live-are-they-getting-wealthier/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 Get the latest data in the 2016  Global Wealth Report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute.