What’s Inside November 2012:
New websites on 2012 elections New articles on media trends New reports on press regulation New reports on social media
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WEBSITES
Social media and the US elections key sites, resources See our recommended sites via the blog http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.co.uk /2012/11/social-science-sites-ofweek_9.html
Social media and political engagement latest Pew and Internet life report from the USA. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Po litical-engagement.aspx
JOURNALISM
STANDARDS
BBC editorial scandals Good starting points for information are.
BBC statement on newsnight http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/ne ws/press_releases/2012/statement_ newsnight_findings.html They also have editorial guidelines here on the BBC trust website http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_w ork/editorial_standards/
Ofcom is a regulator.it has reports on the BBC though not specifically this issue http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broad casting/guidance/complaintssanctions/ The Media Standards trust website has comments on standards and accountability in Uk media. http://mediastandardstrust.org/ The Campaign for media and press freedom has also discussed BBC issues. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?subje ct=%27future%20of%20the%20BBC... %27 Voicing the Public Interest: Listening to the public on press regulation Carnegie Trust report http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/Publi cations/2012/Voicing-the-PublicInterest NEW ARTICLES SOCIAL MEDIA The Center for International Media Assistance in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, announced the publication of an interactive map mapping digital media http://cima.ned.org/mapping/digitalmedia/
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The project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries you can map social media use, broadband
Revolution (World Economic Forum report) http://reports.weforum.org/globalagenda-survey-2012/trends/digitalcommunication-revolution/ NEW ARTICLES CHILDREN
connections, digital tv.The Open society foundation has country by country reports on these same factors. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org /search?key=mapping%20digital%20m edia
Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets: Kenya http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001BlbC6qF F2aXEVxNfz3O4RLIqkye5fHbuv2qxFv 53CcV8J9hLSpgtEEmF02NHhJkd9S6yCtX9RWfjFCIB2d4a1osx_ H0F2N0YOV7Ha4Cgt9zFjQ4zuZ9oGo 2xP8RftibOXE2w_cCjvA= (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers / African Media Initiative)
Excessive internet use among Australian children http://www.cci.edu.au/sites/defaul t/files/Excessive%20internet%20use %20among%20Australian%20children %20final_0.pdf David Ĺ mahel, Danielle Brady, Kjartan Ă“lafsson, Lelia Green ARC Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2012 Ofcom data on childrens use of the Internet and texting.. http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2012/10/23/s ignificant-rise-inchildren%e2%80%99s-texting-andtime-spent-online/
E-GOVERNMENT
Global Agenda Survey 2012: Trend Digital &; Communications
World e-Parliament Report 2012 prepared by the Global Centre for ICT http://www.ictparliament.org/WeP Report2012 The Report covers the following topics: Developments in ICT and parliaments since 2010; Communication and engagement with citizens; Achieving openness, transparency, and accountability through websites; Technology services for members; Management of parliamentary documentation; Libraries and research services; Human resources and technical infrastructure; ICT strategic planning and implementation for e-
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parliament; The state of e-parliament in 2012; Advances in international cooperation. The website also has videos from the conference, http://www.ictparliament.org/node/4961 press releases and access to other world e parliament reports from 2008 onwards.
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The Project on Information Technology and Political Islam which is supported by the National Science Foundation and the George W. Bush Institute. Download a report on twitter . http://pitpi.org/?p=1051 Look at bibliographies and other full text publications.
Fortune survey - 40% of US teens own iphone. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/09 /survey-40-of-u-s-teens-own-an-appleiphone-62-want-one/ Mobile Phones and Tablets Now Account for 1 in 8 U.S. Internet Page Views- Comscore data. http://www.comscoredatamine.com/20 12/10/mobile-phones-and-tablets-nowaccount-for-1-in-8-u-s-internet-pageviews/
NEW INTERNET PRIVACY STUDY
NEW SURVEYS ON TW ITTER AND THE ARAB SPRING Mining Twitter data from the Arab Spring byRob Schroeder, Sean Everton, and Russell Shepherd https://globalecco.org/mining-twitterdata-from-the-arab-spring Interesting study free online from global ecco journal summary. The abstract states: 'In an examination of a subgroup of primarily Arab-speaking Twitter users, we found that not only did traditional media and activists appear to play a large role in framing the events in Egypt, but so did a fake Twitter account impersonating Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.' Other useful sources of articles on in social media usage are
UNESCO release global survey on internet privacy and freedom of expression. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/commu nication-andinformation/resources/publicationsand-communicationmaterials/publications/full-list/globalsurvey-on-internet-privacy-andfreedom-of-expression/ This surveys threats to privacy that have developed through the Internet, and examines international legal standards on privacy On a related theme the latest Google transparency report https://www.google.com/transparencyr eport/ shows requests by governments for the removal of internet information rising.
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https://www.google.com/transparencyr eport/userdatarequests/ Also worryingly the Berkeley university Web Privacy Census http://www.law.berkeley.edu/privacyce nsus.htm (which aims to measure online privacy by conducting periodic web crawls and comparing the number of cookies and other types of tracking technology found over time on the most visited sites.) found the number of trackers collecting data on users’ activities on the most popular Web sites in the United States had significantly increased in the last five months The main site also has very good literature reviews of internet privacy literature.
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