Civic engagement through mainstream online newspapers: Possibilities and shortcomings

Cancer epidemiology: shortcomings and possibilities.

The development of the concepts of initiators and promoters in carcinogenesis necessitates deliberations of evidence from human cancer epidemiology. Recent arguments in favor of mortality data as a more reliable indicator of trends in cancer incidence than morbidity data collected from cancer registries are disputed. Inconsistency in the use of data is pointed out. Comparisons of data from canc...

Online vs. Face-to-Face Deliberation: Effects on Civic Engagement

Deliberation is considered to produce positive effects on public opinion, in that it exposes participants to alternative perspectives and rational arguments. However, whereas benefits of face-to-face deliberation have been supported by many empirical studies, the effects of online deliberation remain unclear to date. This research compares the effects of online and face-to-face deliberation in ...

Do personality traits predict civic engagement and political participation? Understanding offline and online engagement and participation

Facebook: The enabler of online civic engagement for activists

Civic Engagement, Adulthood

COHABITATION Cohabitation is defined by social scientists as two adults of the opposite sex living together in an intimate, nonmarital relationship. Cohabitation has rapidly become a prominent feature on the landscape of American family life. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Kennedy and Bumpass (2007) estimated that 58% of women aged between 25 and 29 had cohabited at som...