Using Twitter in university research
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – A guide for academics and researchers: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPolicy/pdf/Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf Published this week by the LSE Public Policy Group Topics covered include: getting started, writing styles and possible usage by academic departments.
Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/03/guardian-new-business-blogs Economics blog – with Larry Elliott • Nils Pratley on finance • Business blog – with Jill Treanor Each contains data, stories and analysis.
European Film Gateway
http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/ Offers free access to about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials from 16 leading archives; these include: Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. (Frankfurt) and La Cinémathèque française (Paris). Several themed collections are available. These include: Cinecittà Luce: La Settimana Incom Newsreel Collection 1946-1965.
Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings. It includes a focus on press censorship, eye witness accounts from local journalists and discussion and news stories about the use of new media. All also available are chronologies of events in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
Map Kibera
Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb. Since 2009 they have been creating a free open map of facilities and providing news services for local citizens and community activists. http://mapkibera.org/ The blog http://www.mapkibera.org/blog/ provides descriptions of the implementation of the […]
New Media Index
A weekly report that captures the leading commentary of news-focused blogs and social media sites and compares their subjects to that of the mainstream press. http://www.journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/about_new_media_index
Journalists on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/journalists Launched on April 5th 2011 with the aim to “serve as an ongoing resource for the growing number of reporters using Face book to find sources, interact with readers, and advance stories.”
ICON – International Coalition on Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/about.htm A consortium of member libraries (mainly USA based who are seeking to preserve and improved access to newspapers worldwide). Useful features include a database of bibliographic information about newspapers published worldwide, http://icon.crl.edu/database.php which includes holdings information for North American libraries, and an excellent register/directory of links to historic newspaper digitisation projects worldwide: http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm
Churnalism
http://churnalism.com/ An interesting initiative by the media standards trust which aims to give the public information to distinguish between original work and churnalism – the latter is defined as simple press releases which have been presented as if they are examples of original journalism. At the moment the site covers articles from the covers the […]
Lede
The Lede is a blog that mixes New York Times content with news stories and postings taken from blogs and citizen journalists. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/ It has excellent coverage of world events, in particular accounts of protests incorporate comment from local bloggers,. This includes links to videos, maps. For example, see http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/tunisians-document-protests-online/ this coverage of the Tunisian […]
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