Online censorship on social media
A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact. They asked users (November 2015-March 2016) users to send us reports when they had their content or accounts taken down on six social media platforms: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Then presented results by geography, platform, content type, […]
Aid data
Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). maintains a site containing humanitarian contribution data relating to specific crises. It measures aid from from donor governments and recipient agencies as well as information on specific pledges carried in the media, on donor websites, or quoted in pledging conferences. The […]
Republican nomination delegate calculator
The New York Times have created a delegate calculator for the battle to be the Republican presidential candidate. The calculator allows you to simulate how the race between Donald Trump and his rivals may unfold.
Economists on Twitter
The working paper site RePEc has just launched its own directory of economists who tweet. This currently lists over 150 who fulfil the criteria of inclusion given on the website. If you have not visited RePEc recently, it now indexes over 2 million economics, finance working papers many leading to abstracts and full text. The site […]
Irish Bibliography of Press History
A new resource for those working on print media. The Irish Bibliography of Press History (IBPH) is an open access bibliography for the history of print media in Ireland. It focuses on scholarly, secondary literature. IBPH is produced by the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI).
New Databases on Economic Liberty and Human Development
Prof. Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) has made two new datasets publicly available: HIEL – Historical Index of Economic Liberty HIHD – Historical Index of Human Development Both databases can be freely downloaded, together with discussion papers that outline the main concepts and how the indices were constructed. A detailed list […]
New course in the anthropology of social media
UCL have launched a free online course in the anthropology of social media. It will start on the 29 February and is open to anyone with an “interest in social media and people.” Found out more here.
Global Social Theory
Globalsocialtheory.org is a new, collaborative resource on social theory from a global perspective. It provides free-to-read entries on key concepts and thinkers such as transnationalism, diaspora and Franz Fanon. Edited by Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at Warwick, it is
IFES revamp website
International Foundation for Electoral systems has launched a new version of its website with its latest annual report which covers its work in promoting free elections worldwide. Other great features of the site include a searchable database of election observation reports, surveys, ballot papers and documents from around the world.
R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion
The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world. For more information see http://tech.state.gov/group/r-shief
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