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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/35/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Joe Orton’s ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/06/joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 6, 2014 Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane was first performed at the New Arts Theatre Club 50 years ago today.
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Crisis Commons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/04/04/crisis-commons/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2011 http://crisiscommons.org/about/ Crisis Commons is a network of individuals and community groups who explore how new technology can help with communication during humanitarian crises.
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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How one woman’s app is changing political communication
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/how-one-womans-app-is-changing-political-communication/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Pia Mancini from Argentina is developing IT tools that can empower communities to get involved in politics worldwide in this recent Guardian newspaper article.
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Disability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/11/disability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 11, 2015 Who are the most powerful disabled people in the UK? Find out by consulting the new top 100 power list just compiled by the Shaw Trust.
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Reuters Digital News Report 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/reuters-digital-news-report-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 What impact has COVID 19 had on news consumption? How popular are podcasts? And many more fascinating facts on the amount and type of news consumption worldwide.
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Open Observatory of Network Interference: Tor Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/open-observatory-of-network-interference-tor-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 A free software, Global Observation Network, for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute. It is mapping ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.