The existence of political interest in society is critical for the health and future of all democracies and countries aspiring to become democracies. Likewise, a populace having the ability and willingness to participate in politics is crucial for a healthy society. An interest in politics and a desire to participate are not the same thing as actually being able to participate. Currently, there...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...

The transmission of a realistic analysis of the history of biology is exceedingly important in understanding the context of discoveries, and the personal, psychological, sociocultural, and political matrix in which ideas emerge and are propagated. Biology education typically duplicates the historically important process which led to the discovery of the phenomena under consideration. However, a...

The complex phenomena of political science are typically studied using qualitative approach, potentially supported by hypothesisdriven statistical analysis of some numerical data. In this article, we present a complementary method based on data mining and specifically on the use of the self-organizing map. The idea in data mining is to explore the given data without predetermined hypotheses. As...

Social media like Twitter and micro-blogs provide a goldmine of text, shallow markup annotations and network structure. These information sources can all be exploited together in order to automatically acquire vast amounts of up-to-date, widecoverage structured knowledge. This knowledge, in turn, can be used to measure the pulse of a variety of social phenomena like political events, activism a...

The article examines and analyzes the causes course of development “culture cancellation” Russophobia as socio-political cultural-ideological phenomena. Their historical roots prerequisites for wide distribution both in West Russia are briefly investigated. key elements concepts “Russophobia” “cancellation culture”, well correlations main political, social, ideological cultural parameters estab...

During the past half century, the political attitude of the Eastern European people toward the state, government and society changed dramatically. So did their value systems. Inglehart's materialist vs. postmaterialist comparative analysis gives a measure of this value change, but not enough as to fully characterize the phenomena underlining the differences in political culture before and after...