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