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• 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.

• Bloomberg: Nike bonds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/29/bloomberg-nike-bonds/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2013 Nike Inc., the world’s largest sporting-goods company, has raised $1 billion with its first new debt sale in a decade. The company is offering 10- and 30-year securities.

• Population growth

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/population-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Population Council develop new tool for assessing factors driving future population growth in a country.

• Data.gov.in

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/data-gov-in/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 A new initiative to provide free open access to statistical data from the Indian government.

• Mobile trends

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/30/mobile-trends/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 30, 2013 comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US http://www.comscore.

• Islamophobia Studies Journal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/islamophobia-studies-journal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Islamophobia Studies Journal   is a new a bi-annual peer reviewed academic periodical published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, UC Berkeley, which aims to...

• Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This  used crowd sourced technology.

• Bloomberg: stock valuations with historical context

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/04/bloomberg-stock-valuations-with-historical-context/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2013 EMC Corp. announced a quarterly dividend on May 30 and expanded its stock buyback plan at a time when it was trading 15 percent below its 12-month high.

• Media Use in the Middle East

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/media-use-in-the-middle-east/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 …from Northwestern University in Qatar http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu/   Major 8 nation survey on media use.

• What do social science graduates do?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/what-do-social-science-graduates-do/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 A report by the Campaign for Social Science, October 2013 http://campaignforsocialscience.org.