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Presidential debates
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/presidential-debates/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.
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News clips archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/news-clips-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.
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Primary Sources: speeches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1266/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings. For speeches, choose spoken word speeches.
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Visualising Information for Advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/visualising-information-for-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 https://visualisingadvocacy.
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Did the polls get the referendum results right?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/did-the-polls-get-the-referendum-results-right/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Here are some useful starting points for tracing the polls. Remember to check the methodology used.
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Countries at the Crossroads 2011
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/countries-at-the-crossroads-2011/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702 Access the full text of this report from Freedom House.
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Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/14/measuring-financial-inclusion-the-global-findex-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 14, 2012 http://econ.worldbank.
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8 years of Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/8-years-of-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 To mark 8 years in existance, Twitter launched the facility to look back in time and trace your first tweet.
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Only 2% of children have the critical literacy skills they need to tell if a news story is real or f
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/only-2-of-children-have-the-critical-literacy-skills-they-need-to-tell-if-a-news-story-is-real-or-fake/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 According to the final report from the Commission on Fake News and the Teaching of Critical Literacy Skills which was established by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on...
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New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/new-online-app-for-reporting-sexual-violence-in-brazil/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are...