In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements, and protest is central for assessing current state German politics. First, moving beyond political parties electoral politics delivers crucial insights into ideological, affective, organisational structuring emerging polarisation cleavages. Second, transformations in are closely interrelated with dynamics society....

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime act...

Predicting both the time and the location of human movements is valuable but challenging for a variety of applications. To address this problem, we propose an approach considering both the periodicity and the sociality of human movements. We first define a new concept, Social Spatial-Temporal Event (SSTE), to represent social interactions among people. For the time prediction, we characterise t...