Providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone
culture and theory, this book is and clear and sophisticated overview of mobile …

How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most
effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy …

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century?
Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary …

Building on the resource‐based view of the firm, we advance the idea that a firm's customer
network can be a strategic asset. We suggest that network effects are a function of network …

In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics
to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet …

Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to
mobiles. Covering sight, sound and status, plus a host of other issues, he provides a …

Economists use the term" bandwagon effect" to describe the benefit a consumer enjoys as a
result of others' using the same product or service. The history of videocassettes offers a …

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand often doesn't know
what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary organizations hold …

The passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 inaugurated a new and highly volatile
era in telecommunications. The first major overhaul of US communications law since 1934 …

US Internet policy has reached a crossroads. After years of delay, the Supreme Court's
recent Brand X decision has cleared the way for the Federal Communications Commission …