recent years have witnessed the rise of populism and populist leaders, movements and policies in many pluralist liberal democracies, with brexit and the election of trump the two most recent high profile examples of this backlash against established political elites and the institutions that support them. this new populism is underpinned by a post-truth politics which is using social media as a...

Introduction Environmental movements, like a number of other movements, are increasingly using social networking sites (SNS) to recruit new members, to fundraise, to promote their causes and to facilitate their campaigning activity. SNS therefore enable social movement organisations to engage with a wider body of supporters, and may lead supporters to expect greater involvement in setting polic...

In the Spring of 2010, ACUTA conducted a survey of its institutional members regarding their institutions’ use of social networking sites. This literature review was compiled in conjunction with the survey research. The first section describes resources that were recommended by ACUTA members who serve either on the ACUTA Higher Education Advisory Panel or the ACUTA Social Networking, New Media...

during many years after second world war, keynos and welfare economy dominated europe and many other countries. transpiring the depression in 1970's and welfare government failure, market economy was observed by west politicians and voters. hayek was one of the few intellectuals who theoretically and practically opposed the welfare and keynes government by raising the economical spontaneou...

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13 Italian Undergraduates Join Facebook, but Keep a Critical Distance: “It is Useless, but I’m Using It” Paolo Ferri, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios & Department of Educational Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Nicola Cavalli, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Andrea Mangiatordi, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios, Universi...

politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. civil society moveme...

Abstract In recent years, Europe has witnessed social movements that break away from the conventional patterns typical of 19th and 20th century movements. The party-or trade union-organised movements, very much centred on political economic issues, or New Social Movements more universal values such as peace, environment, gender, ethnicity, seem to be changing their ‘repertoire’. At beginning 21...

This article investigates the origins and development of the earliest Jesus movements within the context of persistent conflict between the Judean and Galilean peasantry and their Jerusalem and Roman rulers. It explores the prominence of popular prophetic and messianic movements and shows how the earliest movements that formed in response to Jesus’ mission exhibit similar features and patterns....