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    A mixture model of global Internet capacity distributions

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    2015-05-13
    Author
    Seo, Hyunjin
    Thorson, Stuart
    Publisher
    Wiley
    Type
    Article
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    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    Abstract
    This article develops a preferential attachment-based mixture model of global Internet bandwidth and investigates it in the context of observed bandwidth distributions between 2002 and 2011. Our longitudinal analysis shows, among other things, that the bandwidth share distributions—and thus bandwidth differences—exhibit considerable path dependence where country proportions of international bandwidth in 2011 can be substantially accounted for by a preferential attachment-based mixture of micro-level processes. Our preferential attachment model, consistent with empirical data, does not predict increasing concentration of bandwidth within top-ranked countries. We argue that recognizing the strong, but nuanced, historical inertia of bandwidth distributions is helpful in better discriminating among competing theoretical perspectives on the global digital divide as well as in clarifying policy discussions related to gaps between bandwidth-rich and bandwidth-poor countries.
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    This is the author's accepted manuscript, made available with the permission of the publisher. Copyright 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18539
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23523
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    Seo, Hyunjin, and Stuart Thorson. "A Mixture Model of Global Internet Capacity Distributions." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology J Assn Inf Sci Tec (2015): n. pag. doi:10.1002/asi.23523

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