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 […]
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 […]
Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace. This includes hacking, monitoring, defence and cyberwarfare. Access the text of several hundred documents, many released through Freedom of Information requests. See the launch blog posting for details […]
First Draft News
With the shocking news from Belgium this week, we see the media using eye witness and social media resources. First Draft News is created by a coalition of organisations to offer journalists advice and resources on using and verifying social media and citizen journalism sources.
Twitter: 10th anniversary
See a collection of significant tweets in this short history from Wired magazine. Read also the Guardian debate on whether you love or hate it. Pew research has 5 fascinating facts on who uses Twitter and its potential. See 10th anniversary postings from users
Migrant Files
An award winning data journalism website coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations. It aims to offer data-driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to separate facts from hysteria. It offers facts on deaths, numbers, costs. Here are some other sites which aim to provide factual information and monitoring of the refugee […]
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