By Everett C. Ladd
This article examines details from surveys of public attitudes to evaluate people's perspectives in regards to the government's position in decreasing source of revenue changes among the wealthy and terrible.
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16 The Global Digital Economy Notes 1. Moises Naim, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States; Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be (New York: Basic Books, 2013). 2. Nicco Mele, The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath (New York: Basic Books, 2013). 3. W. Norton, 2014). 4. , chapter 1. 5. “Social Media and the French: Nous twitterons,” Economist, 10 August 2013. 6. com/id/102029070#. Chapter 1 The Second Wave of the Digital Revolution What are digital content and digital media?
Digital content —much more than manufactured items—capitalizes on language and cultural understanding and often requires considerable localization in order to be effective. The key challenges in the commercialization of digital content are not technological but cultural and linguistic. A blogger writing about national politics in New Zealand is unlikely to find much of a market in Cambodia. A digital artist expressing dismay about rapid industrialization in the Shanghai region can find thousands of potential consumers within the region but smaller numbers in the rest of the world.
Com. Some of the leading mobile Internet sites are nation specific and are little known outside their nations of origin. com. com. 32 The Global Digital Economy The Japanese list contains a significant number of Englishlanguage-content sites. com. com. com. org. 0 million Microsoft services The digital universe is a fluid space where companies rise and fall, services come and go, trends wax and wane. People are spending more time online but are shifting their use, for example, from e-mail to social networking.