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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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in the United States around efforts to introduce "Net neutrality" regulation. A similar grassroots mobilization has not … with an eye toward identifying the arguments for and against regulation, how those arguments differ between the countries …, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory …
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We re-consider the impact that regulation of call termination on mobile phones has had on mobile customers’ bills … periods. Over the same decade, we find no evidence that regulation caused a reduction in mobile operators’ profits and …
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This paper studies the effects of a country’s regulatory setting and competitive environment on the performance of second-generation (2G) mobile telecommunication. We consider three dimensions of sector performance: entry time, service prices and diffusion. We address the question of...
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This paper presents a model of social learning about the suitability of local conditions for new business ventures and explores its implications for the microeconomic patterns of economic development. I show that: i) firms tend to ‘rush’ into business ventures with which other firms have had...
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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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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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) 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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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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European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children … decisions on lower age limits and self-regulation of social networking sites. …
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