2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Internet and news media
How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/tablet A report from the Pew Research Centre for Excellence in Journalism. Focuses on the USA. The Pew site is also a good source of information on the impact of the internet on the media. They have a weekly New Media index. […]
Google Transparency Report
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/ The official Google website which provides 6-monthly reports on requests from governments to remove content. Country files have graphs of trends plus comment on the content and information on court cases. Materials generally from 2009 onwards. See the notes on limitations to understand how the index is calculated. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/faq/#governmentrequestsfaq
employability4socialsciences
http://employability4socialsciences.wordpress.com/ This new blog aims to support social science students who are applying for graduate level jobs. It is edited by academic staff at Sheffield Hallam University. Topics covered include career development plans, employability skills and work based learning. Blog posts offer comment and advice. There are future plans to invite special guest writers from […]
BFI new historic film clip site
http://beta.bfi.org.uk/ BBC/ BFI launch the beta site of historic film online archive – The Reel History of Britain. The site includes features films from the BFI and film archives around the UK. This complements the BBC series of the same name of over 120 non-fiction films permanently available online. These are themed in collections such as […]
Occupy Wall Street protest site
http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials. There is also a YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/occupytv Other useful background and comment can be found in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/occupy-wall-street Open Culture has films of S Zizeck and Stiglitz participating […]
Global Voices Online
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/egypt-protests-2011/
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