Abstract Digital democracy needs tools and platforms for people to engage with public life and governance. Yet we know surprisingly little about the political life of this ‘civic technology’ infrastructure. How do citizens make use of these well‐intentioned invitations to participate?
Laszlo Horvath
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Adoption and Use of Social Media in Health Care Among Medical Residents: Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Zouakia Z +5 more
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How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent
Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker +3 more
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Changes in Premenstrual Syndrome Severity, Nutrition Knowledge, and Eating Attitudes Following Online Nutrition Education in Female University Students: An Uncontrolled Single-Arm Pretest-Posttest Study. [PDF]
Sarıyer ET +2 more
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Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK
Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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The Effect of Online Health Education Card (KMS) on Increasing the Knowledge of Mothers of Children under Two Years Old (Baduta): An Integrated Primary Health Care Approach. [PDF]
Permatasari P, Agustina, Imrani DC.
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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The effect of motivational interviewing on smoking cessation intention in patients with lung cancer: A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Dogru S, Aytaç S, Ovayolu Ö.
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