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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

594, 607 (2011). However, activities that satisfy the North Carolina Constitution’s “public purpose” requirement are not exclusive emoluments. See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. State , 210 N.C. The North Carolina Constitution (Art.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.