Experiments along the bazaar-route: the importance of user-producer dialogue in shaping new media technology Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland Per Hetland The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? The Internet for all? Technological mediation involves representation and inscription in the world. 1 One may therefore claim that engineers become sociologists through their...

Many commentators greeted the 2005 swing to the Liberal Democrats among ethnic minority voters in British General Elections as a critical change in minorities’ voting behaviour. The unpopular decision by the Labour government to go to war in Iraq was identified as a cause of this shift; however its importance was significantly over-interpreted when it was heralded as a beginning of a new era in...

THEINTLKLIBK~UIYI OAN PROCESS AT SOLTHERN UNIVERSITY, ILLIKOIS Carbondale, has undergone a major redesign since the late 1980s. Central to the redesign has been a move toward empowering patron3 by providing them with choice arid responsibility. In 1994, the library began facilitating unmediated borrowing from the forty-eight other members of a statewide library consortium through a $hared onlin...

This paper develops a model of intermediation in search environment with complete information and explains the optimal choice of the size of a middleman in an economy with an arbitrary finite number of goods. The model with linear storage cost predicts the existence of stationary equilibrium with the same number of shelves in every store and uniform distribution of agents over states. The effic...