The Freedom to Film Pornography

Regulating Youth Access to Pornography

Building systems to block pornography

Experience and recent lawsuits have led large internet users to search for ways to filter email and web traffic by content. This paper reviews the prospects for this research for specific domain: pornography. We present results on a particularly challenging image-only database and describe how these image-only methods might be fused with test-based analysis to produce a multimedia system.

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...

Child Pornography on the Internet

Introduction A trans-border medium such as the Internet that has no regard for frontiers and national states will inevitably result in conflicting opinions in public morality and ethics. Sexual deviation and variation in one country may not be tolerated in another country. For example, Italy is less tolerant to homosexuality, in contrast to Sweden that has a liberal view and even allows homosex...

The Widening Gender Gap in Opposition to Pornography , 1975 - 2012

In the last several decades pornography in the U.S. has become more mainstream, more accessible, more phallocentric and more degrading to women. Further, consumption of pornography remains a major difference in the sexual experiences of men and women. Yet research has not addressed how opposition to pornography has changed over the this period, despite shifts in the accessibility and visibility...