Social science sites of the week 17th April



Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week

Just for Easter! Some fun and academic links on chocolate

How much chocolate do we eat?
According to a 2020 poll of the Uk public by the British Heart foundation in January 2020.
"The average Brit will consume 7,560 chocolate bars, 2,268 slices of chocolate cake and 8,316 chocolate biscuits in a lifetime"

However According to Statista Switzerland was the nation which consumed the most chocolate in 2019
For more scientific studies try the ONS which has a Family food survey . In 2017 it had a graph on expenditure on different types of food it maps purchases by income and region.
The National Diet and Nutrition survey provides details of food intake and calories.

Favourite chocolate bars!
The Heart Foundation survey found Snickers was the favourite brand
Campaign live has revealed the success of its marketing campaigns
It was first made in 1930 and originally marketed as Marathon in the Uk. The manufacturers website archive has some details of changes. this original ad from 1990 (found on youtube) talks about the new change!


Covid-19 in the news

The blog is containing links on latest reports and analyses.

Co-Vid 19 research community launched by ResearchGate

Great new resource with links to the latest papers, research proposals and a directory of academic experts. Includes scientific , economic and some social impact research from researchers worldwide. Much is Available with full text links.

A Twitter Dataset of 150+ million tweets related to COVID-19 for open research

Supplied by Banda, Juan M.; Tekumalla, Ramya; Wang, Guanyu; Yu, Jingyuan; Liu, Tuo; Ding, Yuning; Chowell, Gerardo of Georgia State University.

Has data from January onwards and includes all tweets and retweets on the full_dataset.tsv file (152,920,832 unique tweets), and a cleaned version with no retweets

The data collected from the stream captures all languages, but the higher prevalence are: English, Spanish, and French. Some general statistics per day are included for both datasets in the statistics

More details can be found and updates will be offered at https://github.com/thepanacealab/covid19_twitter)


Coping with Covid-19 a resource for students by students

Fantastically useful flipping book devised and written by

The Rethink step up mental illness project for universities with input from university of London students from UCL, SOAS. It aims to use real life experiences from students to foster a community to share well-being tips. These are honest, practical and good for everyone!

Covid-19 tracker – live updates impact on press freedom

Really useful resource from Reporters without Borders – RSF

it has new feeds to monitor worldwide the impact on journalism and news coverage. It includes details on state censorship, repressive legislation and misinformation during the crisis.

Some sociological research on the social impact of the pandemic. Worth watching are:

Northern notes virus diaries.

Northern Notes, is a blog published by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSP), University of Leeds. It has contributions from students, staff and researchers. They are currently writing entries on theories and accounts from sociological perspectives.

The Institute of Network cultures is a network of researchers founded in 2004 Amsterdam. There are currently a number of ongoing projects relating to quarantine , isollation. They include online diaries. https://networkcultures.org/longform/2020/03/19/the-cloud-sailor-diary-shanghai-life-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/


Trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) in education: Promises and challenges

A new topical working paper from the OECD.

It was written to support the G20 artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue. It considers the role of AI in the classroom and at the system level. See more reports on data and society in our scoop.it page.

SciELO Preprints launched

A new working paper site which will initially focus on scientific medical research and issue results in the process of journal acceptance to speed up the pace of scientific research. SciELO specialises in forefronting latin American research especially from Brazil


A weekend museum visit.

As you cant visit in person he re is the Chateau owned by Voltaire in France which looks bit like a stately home !

http://scotome.com/Ferney/



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