Governments and Facebook
Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013. Governments make requests to Facebook and many other companies seeking account information in official investigations. The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings. In […]
Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
New address for this blog
Hello all. The Social Sciences Librarians’ Blog has a new address https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/ RSS feed addresses have also changed. If you subscribe to an RSS feed from the blog, you will have to update your links.
News clips archives
University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-library-launches-online-archive-historical-tv-news-footage Access historic news clips and news transcripts, currently 3,600 news clips items covering 1951-1971. These years cover the civil rights movement and desegregation as well as feminism and Vietnam. An online exhibit page has a collection of themed items including news clips and scripts related to the […]
Opinion polls world-wide
Eurobarometer: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.htm topics regularly covered include: European citizenship; EU enlargement, social situation, health, culture, information technology, environment and the Euro. Each survey has a detailed methodology. Afrobarometer African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa. Use the website to get free access polls and data from 1999 onwards covering 20 African […]
Social Media – recent findings
Eurobarometer survey – e communications households What do households in EU nations think of their broadband speed, quality of service and tariffs for internet use. Latest public opinion poll from Eurobarometer. The role of social media in the Arab uprising The latest issue of free online journals Westminster papers in communication and culture Vol 9 […]
Tweeting
Twitter transparency report Latest update on official requests for information and take down from governments to Twitter. For monitoring of internet by governments try the Herdict site from Berkman Institute. It has crowd sourced, examples of blockages and possible censorship. For a different kind of tweet, Radio 4 tweet of the day – listen to […]
Lad’s mags
The Cooperative Supermarkets have called for a number of men’s magazines to tone down or remove images of women from their covers. The Guardian has a good coverage of the story. It also has a letter from lawyers on the topic. Marketing Week is also covering the issue. For further details on the campaign to […]
Media Use in the Middle East
…from Northwestern University in Qatar http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu/ Major 8 nation survey on media use. Reveals that Arab citizens afraid to express themselves online and also gives detailed data on type and quantity of media use. Key countries covered are: Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and United Arab Emirates. Of over 10,000 people surveyed […]
Global corruption data
Find information on the extent of government and political corruption worldwide using the latest annual report from Transparency International: http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013 Transparency International also publish an annual corruption perceptions list which charts opinion on levels of corruption. On a related theme the World Bank has The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project The reports have governance indicators […]
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