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New modes of political participation and Singapore's nominated members of parliament [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Despite growing recognition that authoritarianism can be far more durable than transition theorists previously expected, transition theory assumptions continue to constrain attempts to understand authoritarian regimes.
Rodan, G.
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Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Short-Term Change in Word Representation and Usage in VKontakte Social Network

open access: yes, 2017
Language in social media is extremely dynamic: new words emerge, trend and disappear, while the meaning of existing words can fluctuate over time. Such dynamics are especially notable during a period of crisis. This work addresses several important tasks
Arendt, Dustin   +3 more
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Crise financeira 2.0: controlar a narrativa & controlar a desfecho

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2011
This article intends to demonstrate that a good sociological approach to the "financial crisis" is to view the theme as a dispute between different social representations, rather than proposing an alternative explanation to the phenomenon (simply ...
Roberto Grün
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Excavating the social representations and perceived barriers of organ donation in China over the past decade: A hybrid text analysis approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundOrgan donation has been claimed as a prosocial behavior to prolong the recipient's life and deliver great love. However, the supply-demand ratio of organs in China is highly unbalanced.
Zizhong Zhang   +3 more
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The life project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This conference paper is available to download from the publisher’s website at the link below.The Life Project explores issues of psychological projection into technology by diving into the convoluted relationship between practical purpose and emotional ...
Baker, C   +3 more
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Anger: what we know and what we don't want to know. Scientific contributions and social representation.

open access: yesMediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2020
Introduction: Aggressiveness is an essential component of every living thing and the experience of anger is common to all historical periods, all ages and all mental structures. Different forms and narrative ways of anger can be found in each society and
Paola Manfredi
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Social Mobility and the Social Representation of Sparkling Wine in Brazil and France

open access: yesWine Economics and Policy, 2021
Wine is a social object, established in the Old World and later migrated to the New World. Champagne is an internationally important and famous French sparkling wine, significantly present worldwide.
Marcos Vinícius Araujo   +2 more
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Characterizing interactions in online social networks during exceptional events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Nowadays, millions of people interact on a daily basis on online social media like Facebook and Twitter, where they share and discuss information about a wide variety of topics. In this paper, we focus on a specific online social network, Twitter, and we
Arenas, Alex   +2 more
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DeepInf: Social Influence Prediction with Deep Learning

open access: yes, 2018
Social and information networking activities such as on Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, and Weibo have become an indispensable part of our everyday life, where we can easily access friends' behaviors and are in turn influenced by them.
Duchi John   +6 more
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Social Representations, Alternative Representations and Semantic Barriers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2008
ABSTRACTSocial representations research has tended to focus upon the representations that groups have in relation to some object. The present article elaborates the concept of social representations by pointing to the existence of “alternative representations” as sub‐components within social representations.
openaire   +3 more sources

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