The proliferation of debates surrounding the sexualisation of childhood in the late 20th and early 21st century has led to the commission of a range of investigations into the role of sex and consumer culture in the lives of children and young people. This paper sets out to analyse the dominant...

Crowdfunding campaigns must display authenticity in order to gain potential backers' trust, yet racial minorities may face bias if they include signals of their racial identity in their pages. There are numerous ways that racial identity can be signaled on crowdfunding platforms, and this work...

TV viewership data available at the individual set-top box level has enabled new methods for estimating the demographics of shows' audiences, but it is impossible to tell with certainty which household members are watching TV in multi-person households. We address this problem through four main...

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is frequently employed in the predictive modeling process with the goal of improving the generalization performance of models. This paper takes a design science perspective on DR.We treat it as an important business analytics artifact and investigate its utility in...

The author review the states' tax treatment of active-duty services' income; she considers whether it is fair to give servicemembers special treatment. Although special tax treatment might not satisfy the principles of sound tax policy, states are likely to continue to offer it, she says

Digital platforms have a widely-documented issue with bias, which can impact their bottom line via missed opportunities, bad publicity, or even legal action. There is evidence that bias decreases when a platform conveys a signal of quality for underrepresented groups. This paper studies the...