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Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2018

By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...

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An internet-based electronic forum as a Habermasian form of societal discourse

Heng, Michael S.H.; Moor, Aldo de - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2000

Communication plays a crucial role in influencing various aspects of our social life. However, communication has more … Habermas who argues for an ideal speech situation. It refers to a situation of democratic communication with equal … communication for widely dispersed social actors to conduct debate and discussion. The barriers to such mode of communication still …

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Termination fees revisited

Jullien, Bruno; Rey, Patrick; Sand-Zantman, Wilfried - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 6, pp. 738-750

We reconsider the question of the optimal level of termination fees between communication networks in the context of …

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Mobile Communications of the Needy/Poor : Comparative European Macro-Data on Mobile Communications for the Needy/Poor, 'Social Mobile Tariffs', and the 'Mobile Communications Divid...

Pau, Louis-Francois; Puga, Pedro; Chen, Hong - 2009

Some COST 605 Action participating countries have contributed to a survey on the above subject. The focus is on: 1) social parameters , demographics / employment:/income of needy/poor people, and for measured or assumed mobile service usage and spending 2) cases of individual or groups of needy...

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Green Tariffs as Incentives Towards Energy Savings in Communications Networks

Pau, Louis-Francois - 2013

savings in communication networks, and mobile networks in particular. A first Section addresses regulatory, economic and …

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Communications Networks and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Lydon, Reamonn; WILLIAMS, MARK - 2014

It is widely accepted that investment is essential for the long-term economic growth of developing countries. There is some evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries provides spill-over benefits through technology and skills transfer. Understanding the determinants of...

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A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication

Galbi, Douglas A. - 2003

The effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the information economy and society is an issue … understand such questions concerning the effects of information and communication technology on daily life, this paper explores … central aspects of effective communication across a large population. The observed name brand differentiation and preference …

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Network-Based Business Process Management : Embedding Business Logic in Communications Networks

Pau, Louis-Francois; Vervest, P.H.M - 2014

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...

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Impact of Mobile Usage on the Interpersonal Relations

Kim, AeRee; Mitomo, Hitoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Communication via mobile telephones is widespread in East Asian metropolis such as Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo. In the last … of several latent factors in different environments, namely dependency on mobile telephone communication, perception of …

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Too Expensive to Meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication

Levinson, David; Odlyzko, Andrew - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007

Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. And such charging appears to be increasingly desirable, as traffic on roads continues to grow, and costs and public...

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