This paper explores the use of Internet, including social networks, e-government services and e-commerce from the perspective of the digital divide. First, it aims to find out what factors explain the digital divide, considered as a multidimensional concept. Second, the article aims to identify...

The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the years, firms able to create a platform-based ecosystem have become a force of “creative destruction.”...

The Internet has allowed fan fiction to reach new heights. YouTube and similar technologies have allowed fans to engage in creative and massively shared interaction with copyrighted works of authorship. While all of this online fan activity reinforces the popularity and success of Hollywood...

Online Arbitration is a new tool for dispute settlement mechanism. This mechanism is more cost effective, more efficient and better than other traditional approaches of dispute settlement. As a new mechanism of dispute resolution, online arbitration has encountered certain difficulties in the...