Political process theories of social movements have relied on a set of oppositions between culture and structure that has limited their capacity to capture the supraindividual, durable, and constraining dimensions of culture. The solution is not to abandon an emphasis on "objective" political structures in favor of potential insurgents' "subjective" perceptions of political opportunities, but r...

This paper examines the relative characteristics of wiki principles and of semantic systems. It first stresses some oppositions between these two approaches, and exposes the challenge of their reconciliation. We then make a detailed description of Ideliance, a ” pure“ semantic tool, and we set criteria to compare several existing semantic wiki systems. After a critical look at some of their fea...