Political Action Needed against Nuclear Escalation

Escalation and the Nuclear Option

Antiwar Political Participation: A Case Study of Political Dissent and Action Against the War in Iraq

Media are thought to exert social control over dissenters by discouraging political expression and oppositional activities during periods of conflict. With the rise of the Internet, however, people play an increasingly active role in their media interactions, potentially reducing this media influence and increasing dissenters’ likelihood of speaking out and taking action. To understand what spu...

Collaborating for political action.

Students involved in this university-state association collaboration have expressed excitement in helping to create progressive changes for occupational therapists and their consumers. After graduation, many of these students have continued their participation in IOTA's legislative committee and have assumed leadership roles in other IOTA activities. IOTA has benefited from this collaboration i...

Annotation and detection of conflict escalation in Political debates

Conflict escalation in multi-party conversations refers to an increase in the intensity of conflict during conversations. Here we study annotation and detection of conflict escalation in broadcast political debates towards a machine-mediated conflict management system. In this regard, we label conflict escalation using crowd-sourced annotations and predict it with automatically extracted conver...

Firm action needed on predatory journals.

The rapid rise of predatory journals—publications taking large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services—has created what some have called an age of academic racketeering. Predatory journals recruit articles through aggressive marketing and spam emails, promising quick review and open access publication for a price. There is little if any quality control and virtually no tr...