Introducing April’s Theme: Social Class

Introducing Social Development Environments

A Social Development Environment is a real-time collaborative programming tool with integrated social networking features. This emerging technology is important for distributed software developers, e-learning and technical communities. Social Development Environments advance the state of the art for collaboration, coordination, and project management in software development. Social Development ...

Introducing Social Semiotics

Policy Paper on Social Protection - Theme Papers on Social Protection

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Introducing Social Trust to Collaborative Spam Mitigation

We propose SocialFilter, a trust-aware collaborative spam mitigation system. SocialFilter enables nodes with no email classification functionality to query the network on whether a host is a spammer. It employs Sybil-resilient trust inference to weigh the reports concerning spamming hosts that collaborating spam-detecting nodes (reporters) submit to the system. It weighs the spam reports accord...

Social Class and Social Worlds

Does access to money predict social behavior? Past work has shown that money fosters self-sufficiency and reduces interest in others. Building on this work, we tested whether income predicts the frequency and type of social interactions. Two studies using large, nationally representative samples of Americans (N 1⁄4 118,026) and different measures of social contact showed that higher household i...