Race and racism persist online in ways that are both new and unique to the Internet, alongside vestiges of centuries-old forms that reverberate significantly both offline and on. As we mark 15 years into the field of Internet studies, it becomes necessary to assess what the extant research tells us about race and racism. This paper provides an analysis of the literature on race and racism in In...

This article explores the dynamics of cases involving family and acquaintance sexual offenders who used the Internet to commit sex crimes against minors. Although the stereotype of Internet crimes involves unknown adults meeting juvenile victims online, Internet use can also play a role in sexual crimes against minors by family members and acquaintances. Data were collected from a national samp...

The Internet is a powerful political instrument, which is increasingly employed by terrorists to forward their goals. The five most prominent contemporary terrorist uses of the Net are information provision, financing, networking, recruitment, and information gathering. This article describes and explains each of these uses and follows up with examples. The final section of the paper describes ...

Router-level Internet macroscopic topology modeling is studied in this paper. The frequency-degree power exponent and the degree-rank power exponent of the macroscopic topology, according to corresponding power law analyses, are 2.1406 and [0.29981, 0.84639], respectively. After the scale-free property of Internet macroscopic topology is proved, the traditional Barabasi-Albert (BA) model is pro...

We advocate the use of certain dimensionless metrics, depending on the ratio of RTT over distance, to measure the quality of Internet paths. We have analyzed several independent samples of Internet paths, finding that the statistical distributions of these metrics are quite simple and show power-law tails. Understanding the exponents of these tails is of special interest to model-building. We e...

A comparison between the topological properties of the measured Internet topology, at the autonomous system level (AS graph), and the equivalent graphs generated by two different power law topology generators is presented. Only one of the synthetic generators reproduces the tier connectivity of the AS graph. Introduction: Simulation plays an important role in the development of the Internet, as...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 launched a new era for individuals with disabilities. This law, considered by many to be the Civil Rights Act for people with disabilities, prohibits employment discrimination and generally requires equal access for individuals with disabilities (O’Day, Schartz, & Blanck, 2002). The prior special issue, 20(6), of Behavioral Sciences and the Law ...