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How much fake news is there?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.
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UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/unescos-internet-universality-indicators/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is based on 4 principles.
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Parliamentary rules database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.
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UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/unicef-report-shows-children-hit-hard-by-financial-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .
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Journalism and Discourse Studies launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/journalism-and-discourse-studies-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 This new open access journal is published by Newcastle University. It aims to offer a forum for the publication of studies covering critical discourse analysis and journalism.
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Global university ranking of employability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/global-university-ranking-of-employability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Which university graduates are favoured by employers? See the 2016 ranking of 150 institutions from the Times Higher .
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Theresa May’s Brexit speech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/theresa-mays-brexit-speech/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 A transcript of Theresa may’s speech of 17th January is available at https://www.gov.
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Bullying
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/bullying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 Released recently the UNESCO Global status report on school violence and bullying .
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Netflix research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.
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Reith Lectures Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/reith-lectures-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Audio files and transcripts of over 240 lectures from 1948 onwards. These lectures are funded by the BBC and aim to advance public understanding of contemporary issues.