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Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …
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) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …
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Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a … number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous …
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Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …
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people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 … users with more digital competence in using the internet will experience less harm associated with online risk. The data did … been bothered or upset by something on the internet. Finally, the study found that, although this had not been predicted …
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forward contracts would be adopted by service providers. Service on the upstream segment is provided by a single Internet …
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of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …
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Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...
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This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 10 state-of-the-art...
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