The concern with “digital sovereignty” is animating heated political discussions around the world. However, the emphasis on autonomy tends to underestimate the extent to which major economies rely on digital technologies from abroad. Decades of neoliberal deregulation, trade, and...

The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...

Selling virtual goods for real money is an increasingly popular revenue model for massively-multiplayer online games (MMOs), social networking sites (SNSs) and other online hangouts. In this paper, we argue that the marketing of virtual goods currently falls short of what it could be. Game...