Tag: economics
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Gender gaps in virtual economies: are there virtual ‘pink’ and ‘blue’ collar occupations?
Men and women tend to be rewarded differently for the same amount of work. Since…
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Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
This mass connectivity has been one crucial ingredient for some significant changes in how work…
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Economics for Orcs: how can virtual world economies inform national economies and those who design them?
– in EconomicsUnderstanding these economies is therefore crucial to anyone who is interested in the social dynamics…
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Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies
– in Social Data ScienceIt is simply not possible to consider public policy today without some regard for the…
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The social economies of networked cultural production (or, how to make a movie with complete strangers)
Looking at “networked cultural production”—ie the creation of cultural goods like films through crowdsourcing platforms—specifically…
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The economic expectations and potentials of broadband Internet in East Africa
Were firms adopting internet, as it became cheaper? Had this new connectivity had the effects…
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Staying free in a world of persuasive technologies
Broadly speaking, most of the online services we think we’re using for “free”—that is, the…
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Seeing like a machine: big data and the challenges of measuring Africa’s informal economies
– in DevelopmentIn a similar way that economists have traditionally excluded unpaid domestic labour from national accounts,…