The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 has put the future Russian opposition further at stake. new limitations towards political, internet, and press freedoms have led to a severe disintegration anti-regime movement Russia, including its leaders like Alexey Navalny. Digital platforms had previously hosted anti-Kremlin narratives online played role facilitation protests. latest sca...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...

Last year was marked by an extraordinary rise of social activity in Russia mass movements, marches and rallies. The subject of all these events was the crowd. Putting aside the question of the political content of these events, the author analyzes the social and psychological essence of mass action. What are the social and psychological characteristics of the modern crowd? Is it still impulsive...

Why was hip hop quickly embraced in places like Campbelltown, western Sydney? Was Kylie Minogue’s Body Language a ‘sexy’ album? How do you know when you’re listening to an ‘authentic’ country song? Although these questions address diverse musics, they have two important threads in common. First, all of them might easily be asked in either the popular or the academic press. Ideas about race, sex...

CONTEXT Cheerleading injuries are on the rise and are a significant source of injury to females. No published studies have described the epidemiology of cheerleading injuries by type of cheerleading team and event. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of cheerleading injuries and to calculate injury rates by type of cheerleading team and event. DESIGN Prospective injury surveillance study...

One-third of women in the UK will have an abortion before their 45th birthday. Yet midwife’s role pregnancy choice counselling, provision and support women’s decisions remains a taboo. This opinion piece calls for open conversation around termination better understanding among midwives as medical procedure. Recognising global impact unsafe abortion, author rallies midwifery profession to take c...

Abstract While scholars of nonviolent resistance recognize that large-scale campaigns are more likely to be successful campaigns, we currently have little understanding why some protests grow into mass movements while others do not. In this article, explore campaign size and, in particular, the role individual and collective motives facilitating growth campaigns. We start by assuming that, afte...

Political socialization is the process by which the transition of political cultures takes place from one generation to another.In the other words political socialization is continuous in whole of life, in which political personality of people is formed. Many factors affect people political socialization that some of them are; Family, Mass Media, School and Peer Groups. This research represents...

To follow the European Directive 2001/20/EC, institutional sponsors created or reinforced their vigilance units. Since 2007, working group “REflexion sur la VIgilance et Sécurité des Essais” (REVISE) rallies French units (IVUs) to share experience. The decided elaborate a collective work provide real-life descriptive picture of IVUs activities and resources over 2011–2016 period.