Concerns about selective exposure to partisan information have become a mainstay for scholars of political communication in the changing media environment. This study draws on a survey of a unique population—readers of political blogs—to explore the relationship between perceptions of mainstream media bias (as hostile media perception) and selective exposure to media sources that provide like-m...

secular ethics – which is known as the de-religionized, human, or conventional ethics – contrasts the religious and divine ethics. its roots are in humanistic thought that adapts itself to the needs and the direction of the society. therefore, the contraction and dilation of secular ethics will be unstable, gradual, and accidental. moreover, it is not possible to expect this thought system to p...

For Muslims, the tawatur of the Quran—the fact that it has been massively and consecutively transmitted from generation to generation since the time of the Prophet—is among the most important proofs which shows that the Qur’an we have today is the same scripture that was revealed to the Prophet. However, this proof has been neglected in the studies of Western scholars on the topic of t...

Abstract Complexity science permeates the policy spectrum but not antitrust. This is unfortunate. provides a high-resolution screen on empirical realities of markets. And it enables rich understanding competition, beyond reductionist descriptions markets and firms proposed by neoclassical models their contemporary neo-Brandeisian critique. New insights arise from key teachings complexity scienc...

Up until the mid-1990s, for a significant proportion of mainstream IS scholars, particularly those in North America and Asia, research meant quantitative research, and studies not using the so-called scientific methods were excluded from the definition of research itself (e.g., Lee and Liebenau 1997). Fortunately, due to the untiring efforts of a small number of leaders in the qualitative resea...