Social science sites of the week 17th July 2020

Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists
Continuing to collect and link to key government reports on the blog

Centre for Longitudinal Studies have released the first wave of their COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies. The data from the four CLS studies taking part (the Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, the 1970 British Cohort Study and the National Child Development Study) has been de-identified and is available for researchers to download from the UK Data Service.  (SN: 8658) . Questions tackled include medical conditions , impact on  health of the lockdown and compliance with social distancing.

REDASA (REaltime Data Analysis and Synthesis), Covid 19 platform launched
A consortium of technology companies comprising Cloudwick, MirrorWeb, and Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (AWS), is working with PanSurg, an Imperial College London COVID-19 surgical network made up of healthcare professionals and academics from the Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Institute of Global Health Innovation to provide a site which will use both AI technology and human. collection to gather together high quality global Covid 19 resources data
Co-created by Tenille K. Campbell and Joi T. Arcand, tea&bannock is a collective blog featuring work by a group of Indigenous women photographers, it is currently adding some interesting images and posts documenting their experiences of lockdown in North America as indigenous women
Zooming Into Video Conferencing Privacy and Security Threats
With the increasing use of teleconferencing,  this working paper is really interesting considerng how zoom can expose participants to internet security threats.
on the AI front
see this interesting project
It uses the  OpenAI’s new text generator API to create simulated conversations with virtual historical figures.so you can find out what Jane Austen or Einstein thought using machine learning predictive technology. Here is Mary Shelley on Frankenstein. Try it out and see what you think!
 This week Bastille day was commemorated in 14th July

French revolution some free academic primary sources for social scientists

French Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University and Bibliotheque Nationale de France) enormous site which includes the data project which OCRed, and encoded the first 82 (of 102) volumes of the Archives parlementaires (AP), the record of speeches and deliberations from French Revolutionary constitutional and legislative assemblies. over 5,000 images and icons
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
more than 600 primary documents from a site created by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York, Also includes a timeline of the revolution
major internet archives have individual memoirs including:
NSS student survey results
Are students satisfied?  see the latest results
also released this week worrying finds from
The latest report from an AHRC project
It found that,  the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, has “reinforced negative stereotypes of Muslims and has encouraged a culture of mutual suspicion and surveillance on university campuses”. Morevovera
a minority remain ambivalent about Islam as a religious tradition, and have negative views that resonate with stereotypical representations of Islam as intolerant of outsiders and discriminating against women’
Digital Library of the Middle East launched
“A major new open access resource from The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries. It aims to provide digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, audiovisual recordings, and more from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. More will be added and resources have contextual descriptions. It is possible to browse by date, region and language.
The #MeToo Asia Thinking Aloud Series
The series explores the way that #MeToo Movement was translated and transformed in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
It is curated by Dr Monika Winarnita, Deakin University and associated with The Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network.  an initiative of Deakin University with partners from Tsinghua and Wuhan Universities in China, Shanghai University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Osaka City University in Japan, and the University of Hyderabad, India
Contributions include:
Dr Qian Gong  the #MeToo movement in China here
Dr Emerald King,the story of the Japanese flower demonstration in solidarity with victims of sexual violence and the message “with you”. Available here
Dr Gauri D. Chakraborty Associate Professor at the Amity School of Communication, India, on stories from India such as the social media movement ‘#memum’ on how systemic sexual harassment have been silenced or ‘mummed’ in Bollywood and India’s creative industries. Available here
Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto, Filipino women’s movement in the digital sphere and beyond.  here
Finally culture at home
And on the world Digital Library the rare Florentine Codex with its astounding illustrations of Aztec life and culture.  An encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico in 1529

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