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Social Media and Sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter . You can read the full text on the website.
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Primero: New Humanitarian open source software
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/primero-new-humanitarian-open-source-software/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 A potentially life–saving service which aims to provide free access to software and tracking devices for case workers protecting women and children in disaster or conflict zones.
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Documenting Hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/documenting-hate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 A recent new project supported by Propublica, US media and human rights organisations including University of Miami School of Communication, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Human...
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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.
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Irish Adverts Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/irish-adverts-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Free access to this marvellous resource for social historians.
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Attractiveness surveys (for Business)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/attractiveness-surveys-for-business/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Not Beauty! A series of reports on business attractiveness produced by EY – which countries attract foreign investment.
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Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .
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Karl Marx 200
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/karl-marx-200/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 The British Library has a digital copy of parts of the original Communist Manifesto – only 26 are believed to have survived worldwide! It also provides background information on its...
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What is the most important factor in deciding who to vote for?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/what-is-the-most-important-factor-in-deciding-who-to-vote-for/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Find out what the British public said in the latest Audit of Political Engagement published by the Hansard Society.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...