We develop a theory of information flows and political regime change, when citizens use information and communication technologies (ICTs) for both information acquisition and protest coordination. Governments can respond by obfuscation of citizens' signal or by restricting access to ICTs used...

"In his historic 1919 dissent, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes named, and thus catalyzed the creation of, the marketplace of ideas. This conceptual space has, ever since, been used to give shape to American constitutional notions of the freedom of expression. It has also eluded clear definition,...

The digitalization -- Social media and digital freedom -- Cyber laws -- Pros and cons of digitalization -- Digital education and digital library -- Digital healthcare -- Digital agriculture and digitalization in food industries -- Digital banking and finance -- Digital logistics -- E-commerce...

A number of increasingly sophisticated technologies are now being used to support complex decision-making in a range of contexts. This paper reports on a project undertaken to provide decision support in discretionary legal domains by referring to a recently created model that involves the...

This paper presents a proposal to deal with cultural overtourism causing substantial negative e!ects. They burden the local population, tourists, and the natural environment by overcrowding, vandalism, and pollution. While at present tourism is suppressed by governments due to the COVID-19...

The Albanian challenges have been insistent not just for domestic researchers, academics, or even Albanian citizens; they pique a lot of people in different geographic positions, first of all, the European ones, because by a strong European drive Albanian progresses have been oriented. This...

Muslims in Bangladesh follow the liberal Sunni Hanafi School (“followers of opinion” or ashab al-ra’y), possibly because of its focus on logic and reasoning, and adoption of urf (local customs), and adat (customary laws). The country has been served long with a mosque-imam-oriented (not...