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The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money – Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu – University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada “Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today’s Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of …
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to share a new paper published in First Monday, Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act, authored by Berkman community members danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey. Abstract from the authors: …
Follow up to previous postings on sentencing guidelines, see the following Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System, October 2011: “This report assesses the impact of mandatory minimum penalties on federal sentencing, particularly in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Booker v. United States, which rendered the federal sentencing …
The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election – Angry Silents, Disengaged Millennials, November 3, 2011 “In the last four national elections, generational differences have mattered more than they have in decades. According to the exit polls, younger people have voted substantially more Democratic than other age groups in each election since 2004, while older voters …
‘Thinking’ in a Deweyan Perspective: The Law School Exam as a Case Study for Thinking in Lawyering, Donald J. Kochan, Chapman University School of Law, November 4, 2011, Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming “As creatures of thought, we are thinking all the time, but that does not necessarily mean that we are thinking well. Answering the …
“The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early …
Follow up to previous postings on sentencing guidelines, the 2011 Guidelines Manual (effective November 1, 2011) is available in HTML and Adobe PDF formats (large file and broken into chapters), which can be viewed, downloaded or printed via the website. Individual Chapters 1-8 and Guidelines in HTML or PDF Format View the 2011 Federal Sentencing …
Brookings/Hamilton Project – Unemployment and Earnings Losses: The Long-Term Impacts of The Great Recession, November 2011 “The labor market has shown another month of growth, according to [November 4, 2011] employment report. Payroll employment increased by 80,000 jobs in October; private sector employment was up by 104,000, while governments continued to shed jobs. Additionally, the …
The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame?, Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. “A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of …
CBO’s Use of Evidence in Analysis of Budget and Economic Policies, November 2011 – CBO Associate Director for Economic Analysis Jeffrey R. Kling’s presentation at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
