In the information-technology powered twenty first century a general demand for more effective communication is driving people to question the present, examine the past and to prognosticate the future. The ‘unique global media-information system’ the Internetis the central fact of a vast new complexity of communication (mediated and unmediated) that is driving social-economic-political-religiou...

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans to the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...

Inequalities persist when it comes to the attention, resource allocation and political prioritization, and provision of appropriate, adequate, and timely health interventions to populations in need. Set against a complex socio-political backdrop, the pressure on public health science is significant: institutions and scientists are accountable for helping to find the origins of disease, and to p...

In seeking to explain the causes of the rally-round-the-flag phenomenon, some scholars have cited a surge of patriotism when the president focuses the nation's attention beyond the water's edge. Others have attributed the effect to an absence of elite criticism, or of media coverage of critical views, in the initial stages of foreign crises, when the Administration is the media’s primary source...

This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

Modern means of communication, economic crises, and political decisions play imperative roles in reshaping administrative systems throughout the world. Twitter, a micro-blogging website, has gained paramount importance terms public opinion-sharing. Manual intelligence law enforcement agencies (i.e., changing situations) cannot cope real time. Thus, to address this problem, we built an alert sys...

Billy Graham was one of the world’s most famous Christian evangelists in twentieth century. He visited Scotland 1955 and led a six week Crusade at Kelvin Hall Glasgow. Thousands people attended these rallies listened to preach. At end campaign, it calculated that 26,457 had responded Gospel message proclaimed by Graham. This paper, based upon critical examination twenty four sermons delivered G...

Drawing from a critical and socio-cognitive approach to discourse analysis, this paper analyses the discursive creativity deployed by feminists in production of slogans for last 8M (International Women's Day) rallies 2018 2020 Spain. Findings show how creative strategies identified banners, recontextualization multimodal metaphor main, triggered new feminist movements (Feminism 4.0, Feminism 99...

The repression-protest nexus in authoritarian regimes has attracted scholarly attention of contention scholars for a long time. However, studies have generally overlooked pro-government actors’ role contentious dynamics. This article introduces an original event dataset on protests, repression, and rallies Turkey under the rule Justice Development Party during period which authoritarianism incr...