Culturally Commercial: a Cultural E-commerce Framework
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چکیده
The development of the Internet in the latter half of the 1990s has been an evolution from an information environment that supported a common scientific approach to the world to a common marketplace for a global population. The Internet has become the medium of what Vernadsky (1991) calls “noosphere” the next step in the evolution of the biosphere of the Earth. This development has had the effect of homogenising the networked world.
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