American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The main objective of this article is to identify and compare the main historical frames used by Catalan secessionism during the Catalan independence political and civic rebellion that happened in October …
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Scholars and journalistic accounts have devoted growing interest to the centralizing trends characterizing platforms and the “platform society.” They often oppose this model to the alleged openness, horizo…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Despite Castells’ argument about the transformative potential of digital communication technologies for developing the networks of individuals and bringing about social and political changes, critical scho…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Free, open-source participatory platforms like Decidim or Consul were designed by the 15M’ citizen activists in Spain. Initially implemented in Barcelona and Madrid, these platforms are spread in many coun…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. On January 6, 2021, the United States experienced an insurrection at the United States Capitol that was framed in varying and complex ways by traditional U.S. allies, competing nations, and adversaries. Th…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. What is truth in politics? Movements such as the anti-establishment, internet-born conspiracy theory QAnon are offered as dramatic cases of just how “irrational” people have become in a “post-truth” politi…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Experts, news media, and social media commentators struggled to make sense of SARS-CoV-2 January–May 2020 as disease caused by this virus, COVID-19, circulated the globe. This paper represents a longitudin…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Despite the United States being the only country in the world that places its former and incoming leader on a stage for millions to see, with the “Peaceful Transition of Power” being the very symbol of Ame…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic erupted during the climate change (CC) crisis, forcing individuals to adapt abruptly to a new scenario, and triggering changes in everyone’s lifestyles. Based on a sample of the UK po…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Participatory budgeting (PB) is seldom tied to commxunity-based philosophy, and thus is not often approached as community organizing. In this Introduction, this link is established while illustrating how t…