A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web

A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web

development of new markets and products. As globalization shrinks the world marketplace, corporations are forced to seek both new customers and products to sell. Commodification is the process of transforming objects, ideas and even people into merchandise. The recent growth of the World Wide Web has caught the attention of the corporate world, and they are attempting to convert a free-share-ba...

Information Quality on the World Wide Web: A User Perspective

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World Wide Web: A Graph-Theoretic Perspective

The World Wide Web can be modeled as a directed graph in which a node represents a Web page and an edge represents a hyperlink. Currently, the number of nodes in this gigantic Web graph is estimated to be over four billion, and is growing at more than seven million nodes a day  without any centralized control. Recent studies suggest that despite its chaotic appearance, the Web is a highly stru...

A trip on the world wide web.

A social shaping perspective on the development of the world wide web: The case of iCraveTV

This article uses the Social Shaping of Technology (SST) framework to analyze the case of a Canadian internet company called iCraveTV, which captured broadcast television signals off the air and retransmitted them over the internet. The case study identifies and discusses the social and legal mechanisms by which relevant social groups can exert substantial force on the development of the web. T...