New BFI Library
http://www.bfi.org.uk/node/1125 The BFI Reuben Library has an extensive collection of materials relating to film and television including books, journals, newspaper cuttings and multi-media resources.
Presidential debates
See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.org/ There is a historical section with information on debates from 1858 onwards, in addition to coverage from the main US newspapers. http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=debate-history C-Span also has some coverage and pre and post-debate discussion on its website http://www.c-span.org/Debates/Events/Town-Hall-Presidential-Debate/10737434294-9/ The C-Span video library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/topic/54 has extensive footage […]
Asian Overview report – Social, digital and mobile media
http://wearesocial.sg/blog/2012/10/social-digital-mobile-asia/ Free access from the We are Social Media website to 100 slides of the latest facts and figures from around the region, including select highlights from each of the 24 countries covered. Key facts include: 1. There are now well over 1 billion internet users in Asia 2. At least 811 million of these […]
TV News Search Borrow
http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts from relevant television news programmes. The collection now contains 350,000 news programmes collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San […]
Tweeting #OWS
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected. The site includes timeline of key events, plus useful maps and word clouds which allow hastags and trends to be mapped over time. See the data analysis section for methodology and techniques: http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/about/data-analysis/
Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive
http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.3 million global news and entertainment stories beginning in 1895 it also includes some materials from AP partners ABC News, TVAM, British Movietone and the Press Association. The site is fully searchable and there are compilations on themed […]
Web Index
The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index: http://www.webfoundation.org/2012/09/web-foundation-launches-the-web-index This is a country-by-country global study that measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations. 61 developed nations are covered and a variety of economic social impacts considered, including the the infrastructure and level of accessability. Ultimately the nations are […]
Mapping digital Nigeria
http://www.soros.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-nigeria A 96-page report from the Soros Foundation. This useful country report covers law, internet technology, consumption, impact on journalism and business This is the latest in a series of country reports http://www.soros.org/search?key=mapping%20digital%20media which the foundation has produced. Over 20 other titles covering nations worldwide have also been produced and can be downloaded from the […]
EU Screen…
…launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe. The most recent exhibitions include: Sportswomen and Swedish TV from the 1950s-1980s; Civil rights in Northern Ireland 1968-69 RTE coverage; Being European(changing conceptions of EU membership/ identity).
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 […]
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