Sites of the week 19th November 2021
Here is the latest update of new sites for social scientists
Kaiser family Foundation Covid Misinformation monitor. Latest results
Covers American population results include responses by political affiliation as well as other indicators including age, gender and ethnicity.
eight in ten adults said they have heard at least one of eight different pieces of misinformation and either believe them to be true or are not sure whether they are true or false. Most commonly, six in ten adults have heard that the government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths by counting deaths due to other factors as coronavirus deaths and either believe this to be true (38%) or aren’t sure if it’s true or false (22%).
Technologies of Hope and fear : 100 Responses to the Pandemic
Project by Tactical tech
which aims to focus on the fact that new data technologies designed to help manage the pandemic also serve to observe, sense, control and attempt to modify human behaviour Recognising technologies as both problem-solving and problem-making, the project explores this giving examples of the technology
The Women’s Library Poster Collection.
New on the LSE digital library over 170 amazing women’s activist posters produced during the 1970s 1980s including key examples from the Red women’s Workshop and feminist peace campaigners
Also from LSE this week youtube video from Being Human festival event on Tote Bag feminism. Fascinating history with great examples
The Politics of Women's Suffrage
Edited by Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Lyndsey Jenkins
A Great new open access book from School of Advanced study, University of London
Download the full text which focuses on grassroots activism in the broadest sense including both local and international efforts and different forms of campaigns for the vote including education.
UNU Gender AtlasThe UNU Gender Atlas provides a succinct summary of the United Nations University’s work on gender equality, looks at themes in the 2030 Agenda
New 5 volume open access Study on Antisemitism
De Gruyter have just made free to download
An End to Antisemitism! the outcome of an international high-level conference that was held in Vienna in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Vienna, together with New York University, Tel Aviv University and the European Jewish Congress.
Topics covered include: Volume 1: Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism
A Multi-Faceted Approach
Volume 2: Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Volume 3: Comprehending Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
Volume 4: Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Volume 5: Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds
Charles Darwin’s Book reviews
Complied by the University of Singapore and available via the Darwin online website
Over 1,700 Book Reviews Of Charles Darwin’s Works . Includes reviews in various languages.
Find out what about his theories of evolution!
Dickens Words online
The CLiC Dickens project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, grant reference AH/P504634/1. Project team: Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, Prof. Peter Stockwell, Viola Wiegand. it aims to allow users to search for individual words in the texts of Charles Dickens. See how frequently and in what context they appear.
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