This paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation. Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework and by looking at levels of new literacies...

Most Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to a new study that for the first time combines server logs of Facebook activity with survey data to explore the structure of Facebook friendship networks and measures of social well-being. These data were then matched with survey responses. And the new...

Much of the dislike shown against Kim Dotcom and his unappealing company is a matter of taste and realization. This is personal, and the US authorities have made no secret of that fact, writes Binoy Kampmark.

This paper exploits a brief period of asymmetric information during the implementation of Pennsylvania’s “report card” scheme for coronary artery bypass graft surgery to test for improvements in quality of care and selection of patients by health care providers. During the first three years of the 1990s, providers in Pennsylvania had an incentive to bias...

This paper examines US counter-radicalisation strategy and outlines specific recommendations to counter the ideology behind violent domestic terrorism. The death of Osama bin Laden and the emergence of the Arab Spring has de-emphasised many political grievances that have driven terrorist attacks in the past. However, jihadist ideology still presents a potent form of rebellion against...