EU referendum
View Demos visual mapping of the Brexit Twitterosphere for a stunning visual examination of key players and networks. Find out which three women were key players during the first week of May!
How Facebook news presents different realities
A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports. To consider how this source can raise questions about whether the Facebook mechanism of likes and friends manipulates what news ‘or facts’ that readers really see. View […]
Refugee use of mobile phones
The Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde. It investigates the physical and digital journeys of Syrian and Iraqi refugees documenting the digital media services used for news so the EU can develop […]
Prison Reform
This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison. Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons. Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest prison reform charity in the UK. Its website has news stories, policy and research publications covering all aspects of […]
Chilean political songs
For political songs try this recently released Spanish archive. Cantos Cautivos: Online Archive of Songs of Political Captivity in Pinochet’s Chile 1973–1990
The Anti-Corruption Summit
The Anti-Corruption Summit has taken place in London. The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform. It includes a collection of essays discussing corruption. plus the new UK government plans to oppose corruption and to govern access to data. For comment see: the Transparency International website. the Anti-corruption manifesto issued by NGOs and Transparency […]
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.
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 […]
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