Connective and Communal Public Goods in Interactive Communication Systems
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Connective and Communal Public Goods in Interactive Communication Systems
This paper extends theories of public goods to interactive communication systems. Two key public communication goods are identified. Connectivity provides point-to-point communication, and communality links members through commonly held information, such as that often found in databases. These extensions are important, we argue, because communication public goods operate differently from tradit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Communication Theory
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1050-3293,1468-2885
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00120.x