Andrew Dunn
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National Archives to capture tweets and social media created by the UK government Their website has a direct link to the Twitter archive and a YouTube archive According to the official press release the following rules have been applied. Where tweets contain a link to web content that is included in the UK Government Web Archive users can expect […]
Social Media and Sexism
This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter. You can read the full text on the website. Some interesting key findings include: of over 100,000 Tweets mentioning ‘rape’ between 26th December 2013 and 9th February 2014, more than 1 in 10 appeared to be threatening in nature. A high proportion […]
The Public Voice of Women
The Public Voice of Women Read the transcript or listen to the podcast of the London Review of Books lecture by academic Mary Beard delivered in March 2014. It considers the suppression of women’s voices in western cultural history. For a consideration of women’s voices in journalism and the media look at the Expert Women campaign from Broadcast. The […]
History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain
Forward to Freedom: The History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain 1959-1994. This great new website funded by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund provides free access to a wealth of resources. These include: a history of the campaign and boycotts, oral history accounts from activists and original documents. […]
Global Governance Monitor Tool
Global Governance Monitor Tool from the Council on Foreign Relations. …aims to monitor how the international community is doing in dealing with security threats. It has a timeline of key events in preventing war from 1648 to the present day. Other features of the site include: a matrix of Core United Nations peacekeeping documents, lists of […]
Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data.
… comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval. Analysis has been made from a global news archive. Materials generally date from 1945 onwards. Event file data and visual representations can be downloaded. For example the Google Earth File: 1979-2009 Sample Set contains data of three types of civil unrest events for […]
Religious and Ethnic Groups Data
Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups Data Free access the University of Illinois to statistical data which provides information on religious and ethnic diversity in over 100 nations worldwide from the 1940s to the present day. The main data sources used for compliation are the Britannica Book of the Year, the CIA World Factbook and the […]
Better Life Index
2014 Better Life Index released by OECD This annual survey of OECD countries seek to answer the question “What do people want from life?” It has been in operation since 2011. You can view results on the interactive map by region. and age group. It also cross compares life and considers the impact of the economic […]
Are Students addicted to their Mobile Phones?
Read this interesting exploratory paper. Hooked on Smartphones: An Exploratory Study on Smartphone Overuse among College Students by Uichin Lee et al.
The China and Latin America Finance Database
https://www.thedialogue.org/china_latin_america_finance_database A joint project between the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University and the Inter-American Dialogue. The Dialogue’s publication, The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America by Kevin Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski, is the main source of featured data and conclusions. Use it to access up to date […]
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