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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