Social media have provided instrumental means of communication in many recent political protests. The efficiency of online networks in disseminating timely information has been praised by many commentators; at the same time, users are often derided as "slacktivists" because of the shallow commitment involved in clicking a forwarding button. Here we consider the role of these peripheral online p...

The claims-making behavior of ethnopolitical communities spans three primary forms—electoral party politics, social movement protest behavior, and violent rebellion. In this study we posit that the three forms constitute a scale of increasingly contentious activity; where politically feasible, communities that give rise to the most intense forms of political behavior will also tend to be engage...

Motivated by the unusual patterns and dynamics of the Arab Spring, we construct a model explaining the vulnerability of the newly established incumbent to popular unrest. Using this model for the case of similar protests in Ukraine, we find that the current combination of availability of information, military capacity of the incumbent and his radicalization, together with the opportunity costs ...

navab is a dissident poet and political thinker. he believes that he has responsibilities in relation to the arab community and the arabic governments. the present study is an attempt to study rebellion poem in arabic contemporary literature, assuming that he is one of the political opposition arab governments, so in this article we will study poetry which was written in the space of censorship...

SUMMARY The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the only difference is patients' well-being during the treatment process and not health outcomes. We considered the empirical situation of blood transfusion (BT) in cancer patients and collected willingness to pay (WTP) values among BT users. Our main objective was to test th...

There has been significant recent interest in the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social movements protesting against authoritarian regimes. Much of the literature on this topic can be framed in terms of dualities: seeing either technology or (less often) society as the cause of impacts characterised as either liberation or repression. This paper seeks to move beyon...

This study assesses the relationship between two well-established sets of frames to better understand news coverage massive political protests. By relying on Semetko and Valkenburg’s generic McLeod Hertog’s protest frames, this aims identify whether certain emphasized in stories increase tendency delegitimize movements. To end, we analyzed Chile’s Estallido Social, a series demonstrations that ...