Freedom to speak or to misinform?

To Speak or Not to Speak: Developing Legal Standards for Anonymous Speech on the Internet

This paper explores recent developments in the regulation of Internet speech, in specific, injurious or defamatory speech and the impact such speech has on the rights of anonymous speakers to remain anonymous as opposed to having their identity revealed to plaintiffs or other third parties. The paper proceeds in four sections. First, a brief history of the legal attempts to regulate defamatory ...

Freedom to Tweet or Tweet to Freedom: the Relationship between Freedom Status and Tweets during Elections

Title of Document: FREEDOM TO TWEET OR TWEET TO FREEDOM: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FREEDOM STATUS AND TWEETS DURING ELECTIONS Zahra Ashktorab, Master of Science 2013 Directed By: Jen Golbeck, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies In this thesis, I conduct an exploratory study of the relationship between a country's freedom and the twitter activity during elections. While there have...

User freedom: To be or not to be a 'supernode'

Peer-to-peer infrastructures in a world where many systems are mobile, or found behind NATs and firewalls that cannot be programmed by users, require significant support from computers with appropriate connectivity, called supernodes. We introduce a new fully decentralized unstructured peer-topeer (P2P) approach to open-source instant messaging systems (that is employed in the DirectDemocracyP2...

Freedom to pay or freedom to choose? Private contracting and Medicare beneficiaries.

Speak to me, melody

Music, more than any other art form, can raise the human spirit to the heights of joy or plunge it into the depths of sorrow. Yet, the power of music to influence our emotions, regardless of age or cultural background, has left philos ophers, scholars and musicians baffled; perhaps unsurprisingly, given the inevitable subject ivity of the phenomenon (Fig 1). In the late twentieth century, biolo...