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Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute. It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015. While 45% were women they are less well-paid than men and occupy fewer management positions. The report also found this to be true of Black […]
Are emojis sexist?
Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: see Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to show professional women and reflect the real world of women in work. This follows previous criticisms expressed in the Huffington Post in 2016 which form part of the campaign #like […]
On the theme of voting…
Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public many classic films. The BFI player has a remarkable collection of online election films showing interviews, campaigns and voter responses from throughout […]
National Archives of Singapore digital library
Major new additions to this great digital library include recent and historic political resources which would be of great value to scholars of the region. They include National Day rally speeches from prime ministers from 1966-2006. The Government Records Database is for the period 2011 – 2016. Also available is NewspaperSG an online resource of […]
Bank of Mum and Dad fund 25% of Mortgages
According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage transactions involve parents with an average of over £17,00 being given. This follows on from previous CEBR research which showed an increasing dependence on […]
Who’s downloading pirated papers?
Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB. It uses log data from the creator of the website and includes charts on most downloaded papers and publishers.
Press Freedom Day
3rd May is designated by the United Nations as World Press Freedom Day. To mark the occasion an international coalition headed by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers has launched the Protect our Journalists campaign Find out more about the history of Press Freedom day, which seeks to promote the freedom of the press, […]
Unfiltered News
Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, this site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata. According to the site ‘We determine which news is “less reported” in a location by comparing the number of times a topic is mentioned worldwide […]
Aleppo – New spatial maps of the Conflict
Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo from the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University, a project to build online maps of the conflict damage in the historic region of Aleppo. You can use the satellite images to explore the city before and during conflict to view the damage. Case studies from collaborators will be added to analyse and […]
Where is the riskiest place to live?
Download the latest world ranking from United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security. It considers risk from extreme natural events and ranks 117 nations. This year’s report has a special focus on food security. The background section of the website compares with other factors. For other related indexes and reports on natural […]
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