In this paper, we map and analyze the structure and content found on Twitter centered around users in mainland China. This study offers a rare look at the activity of Chinese Internet users on a platform that is largely unregulated by the state and only reachable through the use of tools that...

China is one of the world's most sophisticated internet censoring countries. Internet users who wish to visit blocked websites will have to use circumvention tools to get around the Great Firewall, a censoring system inspecting, filtering, and blocking content online. Using a nationally...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was used to increase broadband adoption and utilization across the United States as part of the economic recovery after the 2008 recession. Part of this act implemented a program called the Broadband Telecommunication Opportunities...

One of the challenges of developing a cost effective distribution system that supports the proliferation of video streams is allocating the video files optimally among various means of media storage. In this paper we develop simple mathematical representations of the cost characteristics of two...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We provide a model of television advertising based on an explicit characterization of an advertisement's contribution to an advertiser's profits that suggests that each program faces a downward sloping demand for its ad time. Hence Fournier and Martin's (1983) "law of one price" does not hold in...

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...