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Broadcasting is an essential and effective data propagation mechanism with several important applications, such as route discovery, address resolution and many other network services. Though data broadcasting has many advantages, it can also cause a high degree of contention, co…

That revolutions come in waves is a commonly recognized feature of history, yet has been under theorized in the sociology of revolution. This dissertation argues that the solution to the puzzle of revolutionary waves lies in two aspects of revolution relatively neglected by prev…

Previous studies of the "leveraged affordances" approach to collective action have only studied the communicative costs of collective action. This thesis takes the next step by applying affordances literature to high-risk contention. By utilizing illustrative case studies, the t…