This introduction to a special issue of "Telecommunications Policy" entitled "The Governance of Social Media" begins with a definition of social media that informs all contributions in the special issue. A section describing the challenges associated with the governance of social media is...

Non-uniform pricing equilibria are shown to dominate uniform pricing equilibria in free entry, monopolistically competitive markets with identical consumers. The non-uniform pricing equilibrium is welfare optimal. Comparisons of Cournot and non- uniform pricing equilibria in terms of the...

The internet poses a number of challenges to traditional media. On the negative side, it has given birth to host of competitors indigenous to the internet, firms who once served geographically distinct markets may become direct competitors in cyberspace, and it makes more direct the competition...

This paper pursues three goals. It first discusses why a mix of exclusive rights and open access regimes is the norm in many areas of resource allocation. Arguing that such coexistence can also be expected in spectrum, the paper identifies the determinants of the optimal mix of spectrum...

Our work differs from the earlier work in several ways. First, we adopt the Shapley value as a bargaining solutions concept. It is well-known that the Shapley value, rather than the Nash bargaining solution, is more appropriate when partial coalitions are possible — for example, a coalition...

It has been argued that internet search is a two-sided process where consumer and advertiser demand form a feedback loop, an effect that has contributed to high concentration in newspapers, yellow pages and the magazine industries. This paper employs a simultaneous equations model to test for a...

The marketplace for mobile digital media (MDM) is not entirely new. Whereas networks, content, services, and even regulatory policies have made progress through convergence, the process of re-engineering business models to reflect the characteristics of the still-evolving market for...

Internet censorship has been attracting much attention from scholars and institutes, and several aspects have been studied, including IP blocking, keywords filtering and deletion in social media. However, although news is frequently subject to censorship, censorial practices in news websites...

Like many other media services, internet search services provide two-sided platforms that coordinate interactions between media consumers and media advertisers. As with other media services, especially newspapers, the possibility has been raised that positive feedback between the consumer and...