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Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.

Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors, Volume 2. William Labov. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 572 pp.

Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Marc Edelman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 308 pp.

La notion d'acceptabilité sociale est devenue incontournable dans plusieurs secteurs de l'action publique. Au coeur des grands projets d'aménagement et d'urbanisme, énergétiques, d'extraction des ressources, ou qui concernent l'environnement en général, cette nouvelle norme publique apparaît comme un traceur de changements importants en matière de décision tant sur le plan substantif que processuel. Comment comprendre cette notion ? Comment l'étudier et quelle trajectoire a-t-elle connu au Québec ? Dans cet article nous proposons dans un premier temps un cadre théorique pour étudier cet objet : l'approche par les instruments d'action publique, en la considérant comme un instrument de type normatif visant à favoriser la coordination, la coopération et la prévisibilité dans un environnement complexe, par la recherche d'un ajustement négocié sur des bases scientifiques et politiques. Nous présentons ensuite les principales composantes pour bien définir l'acceptabilité sociale. Enfin nous proposons d'étudier la trajectoire de cette norme sur plus de 40 ans au Québec à travers l'étude des rapports du Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement, le Chantier sur l'acceptabilité sociale (2014-2015) et deux jugements des tribunaux (Cour supérieure du Québec en 2017 et Cour d'appel du Québec en 2020). Nous constatons une montée en importance de l'acceptabilité sociale au cours des décennies, pour devenir le critère ultime de décision en plus de s'institutionnaliser jusqu'à être confirmée dans sa portée juridique et pouvant apparaître comme le chaînon manquant entre démocratie participative et démocratie représentative.

Gender-based violence against women, defined as the systematic harm inflicted on individuals and/or groups based on gender, persists in modern-day Italy. I find that current discussions and policies to mitigate gender-based violence neglect a fundamental direction: prevention. Experts and policymakers specializing in the issue widely neglect a cultural assessment to explore why gender-based violence persists in order to address these deeper roots. Accordingly, I explore the ways that the Italian media is complicit in reproducing a culture of violence. This review considers one tool that remains largely overlooked within the project to ameliorate violence: social media. Current opinions on social media are largely dominated by its negative implications. In contrast, my research sheds an optimistic light on social media by exposing how certain projects on Instagram address and challenge gender-based violence. Two projects in particular convey the point: \textit{Il meglio delle donne} and \textit{Freeda}. Through a content analysis of the images and videos shared on the projects, I illustrate how they serve as unique resources for policy, and use their work as a basis for recommendations to policymakers to promote the social development necessary to counter a culture of gender-based violence. The projects disrupt traditional patterns of cultural formation and help to build a more holistic citizenship, especially for marginalized groups, in ways that merit greater attention particularly from politicians and academics.

All people are in need of care at some point in their life. Although families and kin used to provide care in all societies, the division between family and work life have led to new care arrangements. In today's societies not only families but also the state, the market and nonprofit organisations are involved in care. The internal dynamics between these sectors are explained in certain welfare literature as a "care diamond" where local conditions determine the prominence of the different sectors in this care diamond. In addition, international bodies furthered discourses on human rights, often in the form of layered social citizenship, that include notions of care towards individuals. Welfare states in the North, the East Asian developmental states and Latin America have all followed distinct paths in trying to provide care to individuals and realise social citizenship. The social policies implemented in Africa are sometimes lead along these paths but have met with limited success. The logic of the care diamond is used in this article to focus on specific South African policy initiatives related to care and families. Such policies are often nudged in specific directions by international understandings of social citizenship. Although certain care policies are directed towards individuals regardless of family structures, specific family policy directions in South Africa are stuck in idealised family forms. Furthermore, the gender dynamics and the intersections between gender, class and race that are prominent in all care relationships are largely ignored in family and related policies on care.