Journalists in danger
A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict. The website has a blog with news. Other key resources on this topic include: INSI international news safety database which records deaths and injuries worldwide, archived information from 1990 […]
Syria’s internet blackout
Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications. Go to the site for examples of messages left.
Flooding
The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes, graphs chart economic and mortality risk. See also UNISDR disaster risk reduction. International Flood network for newsletters and alerts worldwide. Sites on the recent UK floods: […]
Sandy: Crisis response
Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds. Separate maps for the whole of the USA and NYC are available. They include geographical markers for different types of emergencies. Location tracking, including the current and forecasted paths were provided on the NOAA-National Hurricane Center national weather service. Search the […]
Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 years
To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.html “To the Brink” is a new exhibit at the National Archives that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It displays previously unseen correspondence between the US and the Soviet Union, and secret White House recordings of President John F Kennedy and his […]
Al Jazeera Archive
http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses. Featured collections include protests in Gaza, events in Tunisia and the Arab spring protests in Egypt. It includes Arabic materials. See other recommeded free video sites, including historic and public information films on our recent posting for open […]
Social Sciences Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/information/readers First issue of new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education market: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir It aims to provide a peer reviewed collection of short articles and research papers, thereby increasing open access to scholarly publication See the publication and submission policies: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/about
Disseminating your research
http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/emrsg/units/dissemination/ A useful online tutorial for researchers created by the East Midlands Research Support Group (EMRSG). It was designed to be generic and reusable and is offered for use under a creative commons license. Topics covered are: Journals and journal articles; Other forms of publishing; Author bibliometrics; Journal bibliometrics; Networking –(covers conferences and use of […]
History of Undercover Reporting Database
http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/ New from New York University a database covering the history of undercover reporting, mainly in the USA, highlighting key examples that acted in the public good although they might at the time have been regarded by some as unethical in their methods. The stance taken is described here http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/about Historic examples include exposes of slavery […]
Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
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