Social media is a rich source of rumours and corresponding community reactions. Rumours reflect different characteristics, some shared and some individual. We formulate the problem of classifying tweet level judgements of rumours as a supervised learning task. Both supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation are considered, in which tweets from a rumour are classified on the basis of other an...

This article deals with the peculiarities of student protests 1968 in Germany and their political social consequences. Among many West that year, they had particularly far-reaching consequences for German society. These were related to heavy legacy Nazis, who committed grave crimes against humanity during World War II. It is this reason places a special emphasis on overcoming Nazi past, which p...

A number of academic studies have sought to comparatively analyse the French riots of 2005 with those that occurred in England in 2011, yet these have been limited in their scope and depth. In this article, we set out a more comprehensive analysis of the causes and underlying meaning of these episodes of collective disorder through a systematic application of the Flashpoints Model of Public Dis...