Where is the worst place to be a journalist?
According to the 2016 Index produced annually by The Committee to Protect Journalists Somalia tops the rankings. The list was released on 2nd November as International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. This event calls on nations to condemn attacks on journalists and to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice.
US Elections 2016
Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media manipulates and is a form of political propaganda. It is surveying industry insiders as well as building a database of political incidents involving bots. Some […]
International Day of the Girl Child
was celebrated by the UN on October 11th The official website has news, related resolutions and a resource section with reports including empowerment guidelines and statistics on violence. The Save the Children report, Every Last Girl released this week contains the shocking statistics that one girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds. […]
USA Presidential debates new resources
Following on from last week’s list of resources. Here are some more new discoveries. This recent academic article examines whether academic staff are more likely to vote for Donald Trump It examines staff from law, politics and journalism and offers data on whether they are registered for a specific political party. CNN video library of […]
Trust and Truth in Media organisations
First Draft is a new coalition of news organisations, including the Washington Post, which is seeking to raise standards in reporting focussing specifically on the verification of online, citizen-generated journalism by developing a collaborative verification platform, the creation of a voluntary code of practice and a train-the-trainer programme for journalists. Partners include: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, The […]
US Elections
The Electome Project from MIT Media Map is using Twitter data to look at reactions to the 2016 election race. It has articles and Twitter analysis of the first presidential debate. Log in to get a dashboard of results. The Social Media Analytic Command Center at Illinois State University. The most recent analysis is being […]
Understanding 9/11: A television news archive
Free access to this resource made available by the Internet Archive. It contains an online archive of TV programmes from September 2001 covering a week after the aftermath of events. Programmes have hourly updates and include materials from CNN, Beijing and the BBC as well as other international broadcasters. It also has materials from a […]
Online Gender Gap Audit published
The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online. It used 14 indicators and, focusing on 10 nations, shockingly found women were 50% less likely than men to be online, and 30-50% less likely to use the Internet for economic and political empowerment. The website […]
Arabic Journalism Observatory
A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal to news, research and resources on the media and journalism standards in these regions. This will include coverage of media industry, media industry, press freedom, censorship. The site […]
Digital Wildfire
This interesting ESRC-funded project is examining (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance in the digital world. It is being funded November 2014-November 2016 so some full-text papers are now being added to the website. Topics covered include case studies of digital wildfires when things go viral, ethical and regulatory questions and security and policing. The latter […]
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