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Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common issues. Reflecting the opportunities opened by social web te…

Previous research on sexual violence has focused on individual level behaviors that typically include a single victim in an isolated event. Social scientists have failed to examine sexual violence as a group level phenomenon, which is often exhibited during war. In this disserta…

The main objective of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis the association between a set of social structural factors and the certain types of social movement events in Turkey. The changing nature and significance of social movements over time and space makes this study…

The increasing ease of travel has meant that mass gatherings occur more frequently in today's world; they have also increased in size and magnitude. Mass gatherings can be organized/regular events or non-organized/irregular events, local or international, and peaceful or conflic…