With the intention of understanding the current academic discussions on e-democracy, a systematic literature review was carried out, in order to answer the following question: What has been said about e-democracy in the last five years? A theoretical classification scheme, known as Ideological Discourse Placements (IDP), was proposed for analyzing the article's approaches. The need for deep-roo...

1. Overview China, in its 50 years of communist rule since liberation, has experienced cultural and ideological change on a massive scale. The editorials from the People’s Daily, the typical public discourse representing the Communist ideology of China, encoded these ideological changes in its formulations. This study will present the meaning changes of some political-social keywords in editori...

Prosociality refers to dispositions and behaviors intended benefit others, the present study assumed that these reflect people's values. Much of research on prosociality has examined in what can be called interpersonal domain, e.g., helping others. I propose also exists ideological domain. People hold prosocial values concern collectives, not specific individuals. Multilevel analyses data colle...

Researchers have overwhelmingly concluded that substantial benefits can be achieved by organizations increasing the level of interactivity on their websites. However, interactivity, with its emphasis on facilitating visitors’ unconstrained exchanges and control over website content, may undermine the communicative purpose of an organization’s website. Taking a perspective based on the duality o...

There is perhaps no more vexing, fraught, and neglected concept in the study of children's literature than aesthetics. No doubt the neglect of a serious, theoretical inquiry into the aesthetics of children's literature stems from our contemporary understandings of the discipline of children's literature itself. The study of children's literature has, historically, been the work of librarians an...

Ugo Foscolo, was an Italian poet whose works rank among the masterpieces of Italian literature. Talented and well educated in philosophy, classics, and Italian literature, Foscolo gave literary expression to his ideological aspirations and to the numerous amorous experiences in odes, sonnets, plays, poems and an epistolary novel. Concurrent with his rich literary output, Foscolo's correspondenc...