Is Twitter full of racist abuse? Read the new report from Demos on anti-social media: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/antisocialmedia Over a 9 day period they examined 126,975 tweets. Find out from the results on how much was classified as containing hate speech by downloading the full 51 page report.
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Peoples Assembly against Austerity
Peoples Assembly against Austerity launch new website Includes materials from unions, socialists and campaign groups against welfare cuts. A good place for finding out about national and local campaigns. View online videos and download campaign materials.
Education data
New World Bank educational data website: Systems Approach for Better Education Results or SABER …collects data on education systems worldwide using evidence based frameworks. Policy topics covered include child development, student assessment, teachers, school finance and inclusion. As countries choose to participate it does not include every nation. This supplements the wider World Bank Edustats […]
Internet Verification Handbook
Internet Verification Handbook How do you know if something published on the Internet is true? This free handbook has been published for journalists in emergency situations by the European Journalism Centre. It has guidance and tips on such topics as verifying images, user generated content and the accuracy of news footage. It contains useful checklists […]
Anti-corruption
EU launches major anti corruption report This surveys the situation in each of the member states, allowing cross country comparisons. It includes coverage of the anti-corruption measures and policies in place and the economic costs of corruption in the region. There are links to Eurobarometer public opinion polls on perceptions of the extent of corruption. […]
Glocalism
Glocalism …a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus. It aims to explore globalisation , localism, politics innovation and culture. It will have Twitter feeds and audio content. The Editorial committee includes Arjun Appadurai Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University; Zygmunt […]
Greek television archive
Greek television archive launches. The ERT Poulidis and Sarrikostas archives are available online for anyone who wishes to visit the website, recording the highlights of modern Greek history. They include Greek shows, documentaries, reportages, invaluable sound files from the radio broadcast archive as well as photographs . Other major European TV archives can be located […]
Freedom in the World report 2014
Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings for civil liberties in nations worldwide. The report also has a useful graphic map of freedoms. Other useful country rankings which examines civil liberties include the US Department of State reports country reports on human rights practices and the International Religious Freedom […]
International Political Science Association conference papers
International Political Science Association conference papers. 2012 now available from the paper room of the IPSA website which also holds a wide range of papers from conferences dating from 2006 onwards. Search by theme or title. Key topics for 2012 included gender, religion and identity, However there is also extensive coverage of political parties, elections, […]
Company Data: 2 sites
Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) database has been upgraded. BACH is managed by the European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices. It is a database of aggregated and relatively harmonized accounting data of non-financial incorporated enterprises of 9 European countries. The countries covered are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, […]
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