Social science sites of the week 30th April 2021
Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists
Still following the latest covid publications on the blog
http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/
Pandemic Religion: A Digital Archive
curated by John G. Turner and Lincoln Mullen at George Mason University. It aims to collect and preserve experiences and responses from American individuals and religious communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. it includes signs, images, oral history interviews and posters. These cover all religions. There is also a section of specially produced teaching resources.
The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations
Interesting arxiv paper . Consistently, negative opinions toward vaccines are correlated with misinformation. These results suggest that addressing online misinformation must be a key component of interventions aimed to maximize the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns.
Each year World Press Freedom day is celebrated on 3rd May by the United Nations
the official website provides free access to related UN resolutions
These include those relating to safety of journalists and freedom of expression
Where are journalists most at risk?
Consult the UNESCO observatory of killed journalists information on the 1450 killed since 1993
Where is the press most free?
Look at the RSF press freedom ranking for 2021
Find out why Norway is at number 1!
at number 180 is Eritrea
archives are available from 2014 onwards.
Freedom House publishes regular media freedom and freedom on the net report with rankings.
What has been the effect of the pandemic on freedom?
According to International Press Institute COVID-19 Press Freedom Tracker, nearly 200 violations linked to the pandemic were reported from the Asia-Pacific region, of which 107 were from four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal. As many as 71 journalists faced arrests and charges for their coverage of the pandemic and its consequences, and 32 cases of physical attacks and verbal threats were reported from these countries.
The RSF index has regular updates each year
See this discussion from the European Parliament
and this paper from the European Parliament think tank
Negative impact on Africa - relief web articles
Few winners, many losers: the COVID-19 pandemic’s dramatic and unequal impact on independent news media- Reuters
Pen Freedom to write index
on a related theme each year PEN America compiles a list of writers and authors who have been denied the right to work.
in 273 it recorded least 273 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 35 countries—in all geographic regions around the world—were in prison or unjustly held in detention in connection with their writing, their work, or related activism The website also maintains a larger writers at risk database
Slavery – National Archives of the Netherlands
Important archives on Dutch involvement in slavery have been digitised over the past years by the National Archives of the Netherlands, in cooperation with Metamorfoze, the Netherlands' national programme for the preservation of paper heritage. Over 1.9 million scans are available far from institutions in the Netherlands, England, Guyana and Suriname. They include Dutch West Indies company records and High court admiralty records. Many items in Dutch only
Open Access Imperial Russian Newspapers
the latest free resource made available from Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and East View under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance. currently comprises 19 titles from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, national St Petersburg, Moscow and other regional titles up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
African American historic newspapers
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) ihas completed the digitization of more historic African American newspapers covering the period 1886-1926, They can be browsed and searched online here providing valuable insight to Black live and experiences during the period.
What books did Darwin read?
Fascinating historic record from the London Library of the number and range of books he loaned from them over a period of a number of years. Including poetry and a title on deer stalking. The site also has a fascinating digital image of the handwritten ledger of loans which is worth seeing!
To celebrate May day
So original songs and folk music to celebrate from the Full English digital archive including Oh charming may a broadside printed in 1855.
Best wishes
Heather Dawson
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