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by Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijke - Impact of Social Sciences, 07/03/16

by Jane Tinkler, Impact of Social Sciences - 09/06/14

by Miriam Posner -Impact of Social Sciences - Impact of Social Sciences, 12/08/16 The digital humanities, and the wider scholarly community, face a crucial choice - we can accept the datasets inherited and constructed by powerful institutions, reproducing existing social inequalities, or we can scrutinize data, rip it apart, rebuild it, re-imagine it, and perhaps build something entirely different.

Impact of Social Sciences, 06/08/14 - podcast audio

Impact of Social Sciences - LSE, 24/02/15 How has and how will the overload of digital information impact the way that scholars look to absorb, disseminate, and assess new knowledge in journals and beyond? Scholastica's Danielle Padula interviews Cristóbal Cobo of the Oxford Internet Institute on how technology is shaping the research and publishing process for the modern scholar.

by Ryan Whalen - Impact of Social Sciences, 06/01/16

Impact of Social Sciences,19/11/15 Max Kemman provides an overview of the growth and impact of the platform and also looks at why Google Scholar is virtually unrivaled. The scholarly community might ask whether it is entirely desirable that Google plays such an important role in the scholarly workflow.

by Emily Darling - Blog LSE, 02/01/14

by Anne Baron - LSE Impact of Social Sciences, 18/10/13

Science daily, 20/08/15 New study shows what the natural worldwide diversity patterns of mammals would be like in the absence of past and present human impacts

by Xianwen Wang - Impact of Social Sciences, 28/10/14

by Jeff Dominitz & Charles F. Manski - Impact of Social Sciences, 02/02/18 When designing data collection, researchers must take important decisions on how much data to collect and what resources to devote to enhancing the quality of the collected data. But the threshold for choosing better over bigger data may be reached long before the sample numbers in the thousands.

Actualitté, 28/03/13 L'industrie de l'édition au Royaume-Uni est en pleine révolution numérique. Son impacte aura certainement des effets en termes de bouleversements par rapport aux structures de l'édition, au regard des auteurs, ou à la notion juridique du « droit de prêt public » de livres numériques : le « e-lending » par les bibliothèques britanniques. D'ailleurs, en ce qui concerne le prêt numérique, William Seighart préconise certaines recommandations

Vagabondages, 07/02/13 Le centre Pew Internet a ouvert un portail consacré aux bibliothèques, libraries.pewinternet.org, sur lequel il rassemble toutes les études concernant ou ayant un impact sur nos institutions.

Village de la Justice, 24/11/16 Une communication de plus en plus facile et des montagnes des données sans cesse croissantes transforment la politique de manière inattendue. Quel est alors l'impact du Big Data sur la démocratie ? Le Big Data devient un vecteur important dans le processus démocratique : à partir de la façon de mener des campagnes électorales jusqu'à l'amélioration des politiques publiques et de la prestation des services, l'utilisation des données est en train de changer fondamentalement la relation entre les citoyens et les gouvernants.

Explorimmo,01/06/16 Encadrement d'Airbnb et consorts, droit au maintien de la connexion, open data sur les prix de vente… Quels sont les impacts de la nouvelle loi Numérique dans l'immobilier.

by Steven Hill - Impact of Social Sciences, 17/03/16

by Christopher Lortie - Impact of social sciences, 05/09/15 Providing access across subjects and regions, the Data Citation Index is linking up with repositories to provide a single-point recognition mechanism for quality research data. Christopher Lortie welcomes this development as it will profoundly reshape the publication pipeline and further fuel the open science movement. Data can now be recognised and cited as independent products, with or without them being linked to papers. There is now no excuse not to publish those datasets.

by Liliana Bounegru - Impact of Social Sciences, 06/02/17 Digital media played a prominent role in the recent US presidential election, with social media platforms channelling previously fringe universes of political culture, rooted in populism and post-truth politics, right into the mainstream of US political discourse.