Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google Plus are amplifying the voice of people in the marketplace and are having profound and far-reaching effects on the ways in which people buy.

Social media promoters cite a number of business advantages, such as using online communities as a source of high-quality leads and a vehicle for crowd sourcing solutions to client-support problems.

He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.

According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work ( 19th edition ), the news media play an influential role in the general public's perception of cults.

In Victoria, the VCE media studies course is structured as: Unit 1-Representation, Technologies of Representation, and New Media ; Unit 2-Media Production, Australian Media Organisations ; Unit 3-Narrative Texts, Production Planning ; and Unit 4-Media Process, Social Values, and Media Influence.

* Social media and Social networking services

* had earlier formed a Papal Commission for the Media of Social Communication to assist bishops with the pastoral use of these media ;

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Nonetheless, the state-owned media and academics employed by organizations such as universities ' Institutes of Taiwan Studies or the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ( CASS ) periodically release study results, academic journal articles, or editorials denouncing the movement as " the cultural arm of Taiwanese independence movement " ( Chinese: 文化台獨 ) with the government's tacit approval, showing the PRC government's opposition stance towards Taiwanization in truth.

Social factors which may influence gender identity include gender messages conveyed by family, mass media, and other institutions.

Paintball media has moved on to online websites such as YouTube where popular media partners such as HK army, Tech PB, Social Paintball, The WOLF's DEN, terrencomp, goblinspb, girlpaintballer, weeklypaintballshow, cnoddings, and the egoballaz have all helped to spark new interest in the sport.

In the federal election of 2004, former Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) and media personality Rafe Mair confounded many by openly supporting the Green Party.

Several members of the family informed Gravano that Gotti's high profile and large gatherings of mob members at the Ravenite Social Club were constant targets for the FBI and that the media attention put a large spotlight on the Gambinos.

Estimates of Social Networking Potential ( SNP ) are combined with estimates of selling effectiveness to estimate ROI on specific combinations of messages and media.

More recently, Richard C. Cook, an analyst for the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Food and Drug Administration, NASA, the U. S. Treasury Department, and author of the books Challenger Revealed and We Hold These Truths, has written several articles relating to Social Credit and monetary reform at Global Research, an independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists.

Experts in the Social Science disciplines can shed light on new trends that emerge in the usage of social media by different segments of American society ( including youths ).

* Social media

* Social media such as blogs and podcasts

He had already been mocked by Grimm for " nearly breaking out in tears during negotiations, instead of firmly standing his ground ", and the Federal Assembly and media saw his reactions to the strike as ambiguous: On the one hand, Calonder held a speech on November 12, where he promised the Social Democrats a seat in the Federal Council.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Social theory has no more right to expect results from meaningless questions, than physics has the right to expect a theological solution to the wave-particle controversy.

The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth ( ASA ) has called certain scholarship ethically dangerous.

Social conservatives believe that the government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional values or behaviors.

Social stratification similar to caste system elsewhere in the world, has been part of West Asia and neighboring regions, both before and after advent of Islam.

Engelbart has served on the Advisory Boards of the University of Santa Clara Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Foresight Institute, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The Technology Center of Silicon Valley, and The Hyperwords Company ( producer of the Firefox add-on Hyperwords.

This has its reasons: Merkel supports a kind of Fiscal conservatism, but a more liberal Social policy.

The Conservative Party has campaigned against entry to the European Monetary Union and the Social chapter.

The parliament has, since equal and common suffrage was introduced in 1906, been dominated by secular Conservatives, the Centre Party ( former Agrarian Union ), and Social Democrats.

Nevertheless, none of these has held a single-party majority, with the notable exception of 1916 elections where Social Democrats gained 103 of the 200 seats.

It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

The First Lady has her own staff that includes a chief of staff, press secretary, White House Social Secretary, Chief Floral Designer, etc.

Likewise, the alter-globalist World Social Forum has launched many national events.

There is a multi-party system that, since 1949, has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

Alan Marshall, in the Department of Social Sciences at Mahidol University, for example, reflects upon the way Gaia philosophy has been used and advocated by environmentalists, spiritualists, managers, economists, and scientists and engineers ( see The Unity of Nature, 2002, Imperial College Press: London and Singapore ).

# Social progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has at its disposal ( technology, labour, capital goods, etc.

Social psychology has begun paying attention to heroes and heroism.

Hezbollah has set up a Martyr's Institute ( Al-Shahid Social Association ), which guarantees to provide living and education expenses " for the families of fighters who die " in battle.

On 23 February 2009, at the ECOSOC event in New York, UNICEF announced that IKEA Social Initiative has become the agency's largest corporate partner, with total commitments of more than US $ 180 million.

Murray Bookchin has identified post-left anarchy as a form of individualist anarchism in Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm where he identifies " a shift among Euro-American anarchists away from social anarchism and toward individualist or lifestyle anarchism.

Society corrupts men only insofar as the Social Contract has not de facto succeeded, as we see in contemporary society as described in the Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

Since the end of World War II, the Christian Social People's Party ( CSV ) has usually been the dominant partner in governing coalitions.