Social science sites of the week March 20th 2020
In the news – really only one topic
Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) web archive
Archivist are already working to serve social media communications , publications and some reaction. Archive.it has a collection of over 2,000 websites curated by the Content Development Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. web crawling began in February 2020, and the collection will continue to add new content as needed during the course of the outbreak and its containment. High priority subtopics include: coronavirus origins; information about the spread of infection; regional or local containment efforts; medical'scientific aspects; social aspects; economic aspects; and political aspects. Websites are from anywhere in the world and in any language are in scope
In the UK National Records of Scotland are working with partners and clients in the Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and beyond to capture key websites that document Scotland's response to Covid-19.
These snapshots will be quality assured and made available in the NRS Web Archive:
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have begun asking physicians involved in treatment to record their experiences and submit them to the archive. The UK Web Archive (https://www.webarchive.org.uk/), a partnership of the 6 UK Legal Deposit Libraries,
Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Special Edition feed from Atypon
Using the power of artificial intelligence this new tool aggregates content from over 30,000 authoritative sources across the web. It includes research that the Wellcome Trust and publishers worldwide are making freely available in the wake of the outbreak. Suitable for researchers as well as including titles designed for the genral public . content includes nature articles, official virus reports from health agencies worldwide.
UNESCO monitoring of school closures worldwide due to the virus.
Really useful mapping things move so fast check the dates of the update.
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic
Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi, Carlo Michele Valensise, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Paola Zola, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala
(Submitted on 10 Mar 2020) first papers on twitter monitoring and media analysis.available via arxiv.org
It involves a quantitative massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. The authors state : “We analyze engagement and interest in the COVID-19 topic and provide a differential assessment on the evolution of the discourse on a global scale for each platform and their users. We fit information spreading with epidemic models characterizing the basic reproduction numbers R0 for each social media platform. Moreover, we characterize information spreading from questionable sources, finding different volumes of misinformation in each platform. However, information from both reliable and questionable sources do not present different spreading patterns. Finally, we provide platform-dependent numerical estimates of rumors' amplification”
See more on our media scoop.it page
Keep up to date with more links to key reports resources being added to the blog.
Windrush review : lessons learned.
Hidden amongst the other news this key review of Windrush generation treatment by the UK Home office and other officials
From the official introduction:
“While I am unable to make a definitive finding of institutional racism within the department, I have serious concerns that these failings demonstrate an institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation within the department, which are consistent with some elements of the defnition of institutional racism.”
EHRC Response
MP David Lammy reaction
Amelia Gentleman reaction
Joint Council on the Welfare of Immigrants statements, see more race related pages on the scoop.it page
Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact,
A listing from the Eticas Foundation which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact. This includes materials by realm of activity eg health or policing or by potential impact such as bias or state surveillance. Each entry has a summary discussion of the creation and impact and links to related articles and websites. For instance see this example form Spain
2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Latest annual reviews from the US state department.. it is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State pursuant to Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Apart from individual country reviews of protection whuich cover laws, and protection against discrimination on grounds gender, age, religion. There are also sections on the rights of children and the disabled, anti-trafficking. this year the report contains some useful appendices: Notes on Preparation of the Country Reports and Explanatory Material. It includes sections
Reporting on Worker Rights
FY 2019 Foreign Assistance Actual
UN General Assembly’s Third Committee Country Resolution Votes 2019
Development aid targeted at women is rising.
25 years since the Beijing conference, aid specifically for women and girls is rising according to latest data from the oecd. It analysed oecd and DAC data invested by bilateral donors through the Creditor reporting system. , spotlighting gender equality and women’s empowerment. It found that n 2017-2018 DAC members targeted an average of USD 49.3 billion per year, corresponding to 42% of their bilateral allocable aid, towards gender equality and women’s equality as either a significant (secondary) or principal (primary) objective. This is higher than ever before. However for most nations it is still less than 50%. Get the full facts and a graph of trends from the website where there is also a database of gender related aid projects.
International day of happiness.20th March is the United Nations designated day for feeling happy
This may seem hard at present
.Positive Lexicology project is an index with words in different languages for happiness. It is curated by Tom Lomas.
Where are the world's happiest places?
World Happiness Report 2020, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels. the 2019 report is due to be launched on the 20th March Download the data and consult the methodology on the website.
How can you measure happiness?
The OECD has discussed methodology (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.
this includes the very interesting
How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820 - which covers 25 nations.
they have also developed the Better Life Index- which compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
UK government official measures of national well being and satisfaction. See the 2018 National Well being Index
Everyday I am tweeting and posting positive working from home messages to inspire
https://twitter.com/socialsciencec2
but for today
the fun dancing flamingos from National Geographic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLV_K7DVeyU
best wishes
Heather Dawson
my website ones didn’t dance. But they are from a great desert I visited in Chile.
https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/
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In the news – really only one topic
Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) web archive
Archivist are already working to serve social media communications , publications and some reaction. Archive.it has a collection of over 2,000 websites curated by the Content Development Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. web crawling began in February 2020, and the collection will continue to add new content as needed during the course of the outbreak and its containment. High priority subtopics include: coronavirus origins; information about the spread of infection; regional or local containment efforts; medical'scientific aspects; social aspects; economic aspects; and political aspects. Websites are from anywhere in the world and in any language are in scope
In the UK National Records of Scotland are working with partners and clients in the Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and beyond to capture key websites that document Scotland's response to Covid-19.
These snapshots will be quality assured and made available in the NRS Web Archive:
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have begun asking physicians involved in treatment to record their experiences and submit them to the archive. The UK Web Archive (https://www.webarchive.org.uk/), a partnership of the 6 UK Legal Deposit Libraries,
Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Special Edition feed from Atypon
Using the power of artificial intelligence this new tool aggregates content from over 30,000 authoritative sources across the web. It includes research that the Wellcome Trust and publishers worldwide are making freely available in the wake of the outbreak. Suitable for researchers as well as including titles designed for the genral public . content includes nature articles, official virus reports from health agencies worldwide.
UNESCO monitoring of school closures worldwide due to the virus.
Really useful mapping things move so fast check the dates of the update.
The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic
Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Alessandro Galeazzi, Carlo Michele Valensise, Emanuele Brugnoli, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Paola Zola, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala
(Submitted on 10 Mar 2020) first papers on twitter monitoring and media analysis.available via arxiv.org
It involves a quantitative massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. The authors state : “We analyze engagement and interest in the COVID-19 topic and provide a differential assessment on the evolution of the discourse on a global scale for each platform and their users. We fit information spreading with epidemic models characterizing the basic reproduction numbers R0 for each social media platform. Moreover, we characterize information spreading from questionable sources, finding different volumes of misinformation in each platform. However, information from both reliable and questionable sources do not present different spreading patterns. Finally, we provide platform-dependent numerical estimates of rumors' amplification”
See more on our media scoop.it page
Keep up to date with more links to key reports resources being added to the blog.
Windrush review : lessons learned.
Hidden amongst the other news this key review of Windrush generation treatment by the UK Home office and other officials
From the official introduction:
“While I am unable to make a definitive finding of institutional racism within the department, I have serious concerns that these failings demonstrate an institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation within the department, which are consistent with some elements of the defnition of institutional racism.”
EHRC Response
MP David Lammy reaction
Amelia Gentleman reaction
Joint Council on the Welfare of Immigrants statements, see more race related pages on the scoop.it page
Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact,
A listing from the Eticas Foundation which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact. This includes materials by realm of activity eg health or policing or by potential impact such as bias or state surveillance. Each entry has a summary discussion of the creation and impact and links to related articles and websites. For instance see this example form Spain
2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Latest annual reviews from the US state department.. it is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State pursuant to Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Apart from individual country reviews of protection whuich cover laws, and protection oagainst discrimination on grounds gender, age, religion. There are also sections on the rights of children and the disabled, anti-trafficking. this year the report contains some useful appendices: Notes on Preparation of the Country Reports and Explanatory Material. It includes sections
Reporting on Worker Rights
FY 2019 Foreign Assistance Actual
UN General Assembly’s Third Committee Country Resolution Votes 2019
Development aid targeted at women is rising.
25 years since the Beijing conference, aid specifically for women and girls is rising according to latest data from the oecd. It analysed oecd and DAC data invested by bilateral donors through the Creditor reporting system. , spotlighting gender equality and women’s empowerment. It found that n 2017-2018 DAC members targeted an average of USD 49.3 billion per year, corresponding to 42% of their bilateral allocable aid, towards gender equality and women’s equality as either a significant (secondary) or principal (primary) objective. This is higher than ever before. However for most nations it is still less than 50%. Get the full facts and a graph of trends from the website where there is also a database of geneder related aid projects.
international day of happiness.20th March is the United Nations designated day for feeling happy
This may seem hard at present
.Positive Lexicology project is an index with words in different languages for happiness. It is curated by Tom Lomas.
Where are the world's happiest places?
World Happiness Report 2020, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels. the 2019 report is due to be launched on the 20th March Download the data and consult the methodology on the website.
How can you measure happiness?
The OECD has discussed methodology (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.
this includes the very interesting
How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820 - which covers 25 nations.
they have also developed the Better Life Index- which compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
UK government official measures of national well being and satisfaction. See the 2018 National Well being Index
Everyday I am tweeting and posting positive working from home messages to inspire
https://twitter.com/socialsciencec2
but for today
the fun dancing flamingos from National Geographic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLV_K7DVeyU
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