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Papers by Jaclyn Selby
Online information traffic passes through multiple layers of intermediation as communication flow... more Online information traffic passes through multiple layers of intermediation as communication flows between users. Each of these waypoints is a type of Internet Intermediary Platform, an online service or Internet provider that facilitates transactions by providing a means for information and information services to be hosted, accessed, shared, indexed, and transmitted between third parties on the Internet. ❧ Intermediaries lower transaction costs in the Internet economy by making it possible for users to find and evaluate the information, goods, and services they need and also providing forums which establish transactional norms and codes of conduct. Consequently they have tremendous power as both gatekeepers and facilitators. Accordingly, the internet intermediary is increasingly a target for stakeholders that want to exercise control over information flows and user behavior. One way to do this is to impose requirements upon intermediaries by holding them legally responsible for us...
Over the past decade, startups seeking funding have increasingly turned to crowdfunding platforms... more Over the past decade, startups seeking funding have increasingly turned to crowdfunding platforms as they become a mainstream source of financing and specifically a channel for entrepreneurial seed capital. One positive externality of being embedded in these environments is that vicarious observations of other early-stage firms provide entrepreneurs with opportunities to compare their own performance to the outcomes of peer organizations and to garner information about the practices, activities, and capabilities that led up to those outcomes. It is well established in the organizational learning literature that in addition to learning from their own experience, firms seek to learn from the experience of other organizations However, an outstanding question is do firms benefit and learn from observing others’ experiences to the same degree that they can build knowledge from their own experiences? Prior research has typically examined direct and vicarious learning processes independent...
Online information traffic passes through layers of intermediation as communication flows between... more Online information traffic passes through layers of intermediation as communication flows between users. Each of these waypoints is a type of Internet Intermediary Platform, an online service or Internet provider that provides a means for information and information services to be indexed, hosted, accessed, shared, and transmitted between third parties on the Internet. These services play a critical role in the information economy, making it possible for users to find and evaluate online information and also providing forums which establish transactional norms and codes of conduct. However, intermediary platforms also provide affordances for undesired user behaviors; they may become forums for content that is deemed defamatory, objectionable, obscene, or an invasion or privacy rights. The result of this unintended facilitation is that intermediaries are targeted for civil action by stakeholders that see them not only as conduits but also as potential gatekeepers. There has consequently been a rise in lawsuits in which stakeholders sue intermediaries in an effort to hold them responsible for online activities conducted by their third party users. The use of secondary liability is an approach by which governments and individuals strive to impose legal responsibilities on intermediary platforms in order to achieve their desired social outcomes and the protection of individual rights. The question of whether intermediaries operating within a borderless Internet should be held liable for third party behaviors governed by disparate national laws has been the subject of much legal and philosophical debate. In contrast, this study opts to empirically examine the phenomenon of intermediary liability in defamation and objectionable content lawsuits. Internet intermediary liability is framed as a transaction cost strategy in which stakeholders use secondary liability as a mechanism to shift some costs of policing and enforcing behavioral norms from the state and its law enforcement agencies onto Internet intermediaries. Drawing from a dataset of 250 intermediary liability lawsuits drawn from six countries to empirically test my hypotheses, it is argued that different social objectives lead to heterogenous selection preferences amongst types of intermediary targets for litigation. Furthermore, the network centrality of the type of intermediary platform targeted may influence the magnitude of policing and monitoring activities requested. Consequently, some types of platforms may bear a disproportionate 'gatekeeping burden' leading to increased costs of operation and market entry. These results have important implications for policymakers with respect to Internet governance, online conduct, and online platform competition.
International Journal of Communication, May 31, 2012
Within technical circles, it is common knowledge that the Internet Age has been something of a do... more Within technical circles, it is common knowledge that the Internet Age has been something of a double-edged sword for copyright holders. Digital technology makes it possible for movies, books, and films to be cheaply reproduced in near infinite number and sold throughout the world via the magic of electronic commerce. But, a side effect of such ease of reproduction is that it also allows parties other than the copyright holder to make and transmit unauthorized copies.
This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as ... more This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as an example of an information intensive, or intellectual property dependent, industry. Furthermore, it analyzes how a shift in industry cost structures due to digital technology has impacted the issue priorities of film industry trade associations and lobbyists in their efforts to set and shape the US Governments legislative and foreign trade agendas. The research aims to answer these questions: Given that digital technology exacerbates the appropriability problem of information intensive industries by lowering the marginal costs of content reproduction, what will be the response of Hollywoods trade association as it seeks to protect the market dominance of American film? Additionally, what factors have to come together in order for the industrys business-government relations representatives to deem the issue critical enough to merit substantive action. This thesis hypothesizes that it wa...
Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked... more Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues to proliferate at exponential rates. Thus, this paper aims to provide an introductory framework for the IoT as a market for value extraction from captured data, supported by cloud computing and semantic web services. The paper outlines the technological basis for the IoT in brief, as well as assessing the current state of scholarship in this area. The IoT is then divided into four market segments by the type of end-user addressed by service providers (individuals, firms, city-government, national-government) in order to highlight and illustrate the major policy implications of this emerging services market.
aladinrc.wrlc.org
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown Unive... more A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology ... GLOBAL-WOOD: HOLLYWOOD'S FOREIGN ...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Internet intermediary platforms are online services that provide a means for information to be ho... more Internet intermediary platforms are online services that provide a means for information to be hosted, accessed, shared, indexed, and transmitted between third parties. Such services lower search c...
Academy of Management Proceedings
As acquiring and retaining talented human resources becomes increasingly challenging in the searc... more As acquiring and retaining talented human resources becomes increasingly challenging in the search for competitive advantage in many dynamic markets, firms are increasingly engaging in acquisitions...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Firms face a number of threats to their businesses from online communication practices. Simply pu... more Firms face a number of threats to their businesses from online communication practices. Simply put, most firms possess intangible assets, such as information goods and goodwill, whose value is vulnerable to harm associated with the transmission and publication of online content. Consequently, firms have sought to protect their assets from such harms, which I collectively refer to as information hazards, by suing Internet intermediaries. Internet intermediaries are online services that provide a means for information to transmitted between third parties. Making the argument that the difficulty of specifying and enforcing property rights for intangible assets leads to market failure, I draw on the logic of transaction cost economics to suggest that intermediary liability should be addressed as a the outcome of a choice amongst four modes of governance for nonmarket strategies to enforce property rights. I create a two stage framework in which firms first choose regulation or litigation as a governance mode ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Research suggests that the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: an env... more Research suggests that the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: an environment in which smart objects, or "Things," are imbued with identification data and micro processing power. Currently, the information produced by machines and objects is the fastest growing category of data production. In response to this explosion of information in the global networked economy, the Internet of Things (IoT) automates value-extraction from captured data. This paper proceeds by first defining and explaining the basic context and operation of the Internet of Things (IoT). Then, addressing a gap in the extant literature, a market structure-based approach is submitted as a macro-level framework for the IoT. Utilizing the end-user of IoT services and applications as a defining characteristic for market segmentation, an argument is made for the division of the IoT by scale of service into into four markets: individual-level, firm-level, city government-level and na...
Page 1. annenberg.usc.edu Identifying Perceived Experts in an Online Community of Practice Amanda... more Page 1. annenberg.usc.edu Identifying Perceived Experts in an Online Community of Practice Amanda M. Beacom,1 Young Ji Kim,1 Jaclyn L. Selby,1 Matthew S. Weber,2 & Peter R. Monge1 1 Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California 2 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University International Communication Association | Boston, MA | May 29, 2011 Page 2. Motivation • Online communities of practice have emerged as a medium for the development and sharing of knowledge among professionals 1 ...
This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as ... more This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as an example of an information-intensive - or intellectual property-dependent - industry. Furthermore, it analyzes how a shift in industry cost structures due to digital technology has impacted the issue priorities of film industry trade associations and lobbyists in their efforts to set and shape the US Government's legislative and foreign trade agendas.
The research aims to answer these questions: 1) Given that digital technology exacerbates the appropriability problem of information-intensive industries by lowering the marginal costs of content reproduction, what will be the response of Hollywood's trade association as it seeks to protect the market dominance of American films? 2) What factors must come together in order for the industry's business-government relations representatives to deem the issue critical enough to merit substantive action?
This thesis hypothesizes that it was the conjunction of a growing reliance on revenues from content licensing, as opposed to content exhibition, and a growing dependence on overseas profits, that were the two shifts in cost structure which prompted strategic changes as it became necessary to consider the intellectual property protection infrastructures of foreign nations. Only then did the issue prioritization and agenda-setting activities of the American film industry's trade associations widen in scope and breadth to accommodate the industry's new challenges in the digital economy.
Online information traffic passes through multiple layers of intermediation as communication flow... more Online information traffic passes through multiple layers of intermediation as communication flows between users. Each of these waypoints is a type of Internet Intermediary Platform, an online service or Internet provider that facilitates transactions by providing a means for information and information services to be hosted, accessed, shared, indexed, and transmitted between third parties on the Internet. ❧ Intermediaries lower transaction costs in the Internet economy by making it possible for users to find and evaluate the information, goods, and services they need and also providing forums which establish transactional norms and codes of conduct. Consequently they have tremendous power as both gatekeepers and facilitators. Accordingly, the internet intermediary is increasingly a target for stakeholders that want to exercise control over information flows and user behavior. One way to do this is to impose requirements upon intermediaries by holding them legally responsible for us...
Over the past decade, startups seeking funding have increasingly turned to crowdfunding platforms... more Over the past decade, startups seeking funding have increasingly turned to crowdfunding platforms as they become a mainstream source of financing and specifically a channel for entrepreneurial seed capital. One positive externality of being embedded in these environments is that vicarious observations of other early-stage firms provide entrepreneurs with opportunities to compare their own performance to the outcomes of peer organizations and to garner information about the practices, activities, and capabilities that led up to those outcomes. It is well established in the organizational learning literature that in addition to learning from their own experience, firms seek to learn from the experience of other organizations However, an outstanding question is do firms benefit and learn from observing others’ experiences to the same degree that they can build knowledge from their own experiences? Prior research has typically examined direct and vicarious learning processes independent...
Online information traffic passes through layers of intermediation as communication flows between... more Online information traffic passes through layers of intermediation as communication flows between users. Each of these waypoints is a type of Internet Intermediary Platform, an online service or Internet provider that provides a means for information and information services to be indexed, hosted, accessed, shared, and transmitted between third parties on the Internet. These services play a critical role in the information economy, making it possible for users to find and evaluate online information and also providing forums which establish transactional norms and codes of conduct. However, intermediary platforms also provide affordances for undesired user behaviors; they may become forums for content that is deemed defamatory, objectionable, obscene, or an invasion or privacy rights. The result of this unintended facilitation is that intermediaries are targeted for civil action by stakeholders that see them not only as conduits but also as potential gatekeepers. There has consequently been a rise in lawsuits in which stakeholders sue intermediaries in an effort to hold them responsible for online activities conducted by their third party users. The use of secondary liability is an approach by which governments and individuals strive to impose legal responsibilities on intermediary platforms in order to achieve their desired social outcomes and the protection of individual rights. The question of whether intermediaries operating within a borderless Internet should be held liable for third party behaviors governed by disparate national laws has been the subject of much legal and philosophical debate. In contrast, this study opts to empirically examine the phenomenon of intermediary liability in defamation and objectionable content lawsuits. Internet intermediary liability is framed as a transaction cost strategy in which stakeholders use secondary liability as a mechanism to shift some costs of policing and enforcing behavioral norms from the state and its law enforcement agencies onto Internet intermediaries. Drawing from a dataset of 250 intermediary liability lawsuits drawn from six countries to empirically test my hypotheses, it is argued that different social objectives lead to heterogenous selection preferences amongst types of intermediary targets for litigation. Furthermore, the network centrality of the type of intermediary platform targeted may influence the magnitude of policing and monitoring activities requested. Consequently, some types of platforms may bear a disproportionate 'gatekeeping burden' leading to increased costs of operation and market entry. These results have important implications for policymakers with respect to Internet governance, online conduct, and online platform competition.
International Journal of Communication, May 31, 2012
Within technical circles, it is common knowledge that the Internet Age has been something of a do... more Within technical circles, it is common knowledge that the Internet Age has been something of a double-edged sword for copyright holders. Digital technology makes it possible for movies, books, and films to be cheaply reproduced in near infinite number and sold throughout the world via the magic of electronic commerce. But, a side effect of such ease of reproduction is that it also allows parties other than the copyright holder to make and transmit unauthorized copies.
This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as ... more This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as an example of an information intensive, or intellectual property dependent, industry. Furthermore, it analyzes how a shift in industry cost structures due to digital technology has impacted the issue priorities of film industry trade associations and lobbyists in their efforts to set and shape the US Governments legislative and foreign trade agendas. The research aims to answer these questions: Given that digital technology exacerbates the appropriability problem of information intensive industries by lowering the marginal costs of content reproduction, what will be the response of Hollywoods trade association as it seeks to protect the market dominance of American film? Additionally, what factors have to come together in order for the industrys business-government relations representatives to deem the issue critical enough to merit substantive action. This thesis hypothesizes that it wa...
Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked... more Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues to proliferate at exponential rates. Thus, this paper aims to provide an introductory framework for the IoT as a market for value extraction from captured data, supported by cloud computing and semantic web services. The paper outlines the technological basis for the IoT in brief, as well as assessing the current state of scholarship in this area. The IoT is then divided into four market segments by the type of end-user addressed by service providers (individuals, firms, city-government, national-government) in order to highlight and illustrate the major policy implications of this emerging services market.
aladinrc.wrlc.org
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown Unive... more A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology ... GLOBAL-WOOD: HOLLYWOOD'S FOREIGN ...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Internet intermediary platforms are online services that provide a means for information to be ho... more Internet intermediary platforms are online services that provide a means for information to be hosted, accessed, shared, indexed, and transmitted between third parties. Such services lower search c...
Academy of Management Proceedings
As acquiring and retaining talented human resources becomes increasingly challenging in the searc... more As acquiring and retaining talented human resources becomes increasingly challenging in the search for competitive advantage in many dynamic markets, firms are increasingly engaging in acquisitions...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Firms face a number of threats to their businesses from online communication practices. Simply pu... more Firms face a number of threats to their businesses from online communication practices. Simply put, most firms possess intangible assets, such as information goods and goodwill, whose value is vulnerable to harm associated with the transmission and publication of online content. Consequently, firms have sought to protect their assets from such harms, which I collectively refer to as information hazards, by suing Internet intermediaries. Internet intermediaries are online services that provide a means for information to transmitted between third parties. Making the argument that the difficulty of specifying and enforcing property rights for intangible assets leads to market failure, I draw on the logic of transaction cost economics to suggest that intermediary liability should be addressed as a the outcome of a choice amongst four modes of governance for nonmarket strategies to enforce property rights. I create a two stage framework in which firms first choose regulation or litigation as a governance mode ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Research suggests that the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: an env... more Research suggests that the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: an environment in which smart objects, or "Things," are imbued with identification data and micro processing power. Currently, the information produced by machines and objects is the fastest growing category of data production. In response to this explosion of information in the global networked economy, the Internet of Things (IoT) automates value-extraction from captured data. This paper proceeds by first defining and explaining the basic context and operation of the Internet of Things (IoT). Then, addressing a gap in the extant literature, a market structure-based approach is submitted as a macro-level framework for the IoT. Utilizing the end-user of IoT services and applications as a defining characteristic for market segmentation, an argument is made for the division of the IoT by scale of service into into four markets: individual-level, firm-level, city government-level and na...
Page 1. annenberg.usc.edu Identifying Perceived Experts in an Online Community of Practice Amanda... more Page 1. annenberg.usc.edu Identifying Perceived Experts in an Online Community of Practice Amanda M. Beacom,1 Young Ji Kim,1 Jaclyn L. Selby,1 Matthew S. Weber,2 & Peter R. Monge1 1 Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California 2 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University International Communication Association | Boston, MA | May 29, 2011 Page 2. Motivation • Online communities of practice have emerged as a medium for the development and sharing of knowledge among professionals 1 ...
This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as ... more This study examines the impact of the global digital economy on cost structures in Hollywood, as an example of an information-intensive - or intellectual property-dependent - industry. Furthermore, it analyzes how a shift in industry cost structures due to digital technology has impacted the issue priorities of film industry trade associations and lobbyists in their efforts to set and shape the US Government's legislative and foreign trade agendas.
The research aims to answer these questions: 1) Given that digital technology exacerbates the appropriability problem of information-intensive industries by lowering the marginal costs of content reproduction, what will be the response of Hollywood's trade association as it seeks to protect the market dominance of American films? 2) What factors must come together in order for the industry's business-government relations representatives to deem the issue critical enough to merit substantive action?
This thesis hypothesizes that it was the conjunction of a growing reliance on revenues from content licensing, as opposed to content exhibition, and a growing dependence on overseas profits, that were the two shifts in cost structure which prompted strategic changes as it became necessary to consider the intellectual property protection infrastructures of foreign nations. Only then did the issue prioritization and agenda-setting activities of the American film industry's trade associations widen in scope and breadth to accommodate the industry's new challenges in the digital economy.