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A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace 新数位时代：泰国女性在网路市场的挑战与机遇

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103025

Lusi Liao , Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat

This study investigated gender differences in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the determinants of women's participation in the online marketplace. We conducted descriptive and empirical analyses using data from the 2010 to 2023 Household Survey on the Use of ICT, which provides comprehensive data on ICT access and usage at both the household and individual levels. Moreover, to capture firm's characteristics involving in online market after the COVID-19 pandemic, we utilize the ICT establishment survey (ICTE) from 2020 to 2022. Both ICT and ICTE cover all country regions and are nationally representative, with an individual sample of around 30,000 and firm sample around 145,000. We found that gender, education, and digital access significantly influence participation in online shopping and online business in Thailand. Women are 10 percentage points more likely to shop online than men. Compared to primary education, university and secondary education increase the probability by 20 and 13 percentage points, respectively. Owning a device and using a computer increases the likelihood of online shopping by 11 and 17 percentage points, respectively. For online businesses, gender and marital status are not significant factors, but education remains important. While being unemployed reduces the probability of engaging in online business by 1.3 percentage points, access to digital devices and computer usage increases the probability by around three percentage points. For the firms, the use of computers increases the probability of participating in online shopping by 27.2 percentage points and doing online business by 23.3 percentage points. Disaggregated results highlight that younger, better-educated, urban women are more active in the online marketplace, supporting theories of digital inequality shaped by personal and structural factors. By applying the RA theory to digital inclusion, we highlight how unequal access to technology and education amplifies existing market inequalities. Our policy recommendations are designed to close these gaps, promoting a more inclusive and competitive digital economy in Thailand.

本研究调查了信息和通信技术（ICT）领域的性别差异以及女性参与在线市场的决定因素。我们利用2010年至2023年信息通信技术使用家庭调查的数据进行了描述性和实证分析，该调查提供了家庭和个人层面信息通信技术获取和使用的全面数据。此外，为了捕捉2019冠状病毒病大流行后参与在线市场的企业特征，我们利用2020年至2022年的ICT企业调查（ICTE）。ICT和ICTE覆盖所有国家区域，具有全国代表性，个人样本约为30,000，公司样本约为145,000。我们发现，性别、教育和数字访问对泰国在线购物和在线业务的参与有显著影响。女性网购的可能性比男性高10个百分点。与初等教育相比，大学和中等教育的可能性分别提高了20和13个百分点。拥有电子设备和使用电脑分别使网上购物的可能性增加11%和17%。对于在线业务来说，性别和婚姻状况不是重要因素，但教育程度仍然很重要。失业使从事在线业务的可能性降低了1.3个百分点，而使用数字设备和电脑则使这一可能性提高了约3个百分点。对于这些公司来说，使用电脑使他们参与网上购物的可能性增加了27.2个百分点，从事网上业务的可能性增加了23.3个百分点。分类结果显示，年轻、受过良好教育的城市女性在网络市场上更为活跃，这支持了个人和结构性因素影响的数字不平等理论。通过将RA理论应用于数字包容，我们强调了获取技术和教育的不平等如何放大了现有的市场不平等。我们的政策建议旨在缩小这些差距，促进泰国更具包容性和竞争力的数字经济。

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Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market 计划报废和智能手机更换：意大利市场的经验证据

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103022

Nicoletta Corrocher, Sara Paganuzzi

In an era of rapid technological change, planned obsolescence has significantly shaped consumer behaviour, especially in the smartphone industry. This study examines how material, functional, psychological, and economic obsolescence affect smartphone lifespans, using original survey data from Italian consumers. While material remains relevant, its influence diminishes in newer smartphone generations, where software-related limitations and repairability gain prominence. Functional obsolescence is positively associated with device longevity, as many users tolerate performance issues, particularly those with high technological engagement. By contrast, psychological and economic obsolescence remain strong drivers of early replacement. Consumer attitudes interact with different types of obsolescence: users with higher technological engagement are more tolerant of material and functional decline, while pro-repair consumers are less likely to replace devices due to material wear. Furthermore, there is a shift in replacement behaviour over time: for older smartphones, being second-hand significantly shortens lifespan, whereas for newer devices, user behaviour, brand perceptions, and repair attitudes play a more influential role—highlighting a growing consumer awareness around sustainability and functionality. These findings provide insights for both policymakers and manufacturers, highlighting the need for sustainable business practices and robust regulatory frameworks to counteract planned obsolescence and promote longer-lasting products in an environmentally conscious market.

在一个技术快速变革的时代，“计划性淘汰”极大地影响了消费者的行为，尤其是在智能手机行业。本研究使用来自意大利消费者的原始调查数据，考察了材料、功能、心理和经济方面的过时对智能手机寿命的影响。虽然材料仍然具有相关性，但在新一代智能手机中，它的影响力正在减弱，与软件相关的限制和可修复性变得更加突出。功能过时与设备寿命呈正相关，因为许多用户容忍性能问题，特别是那些高技术参与度的用户。相比之下，心理和经济上的过时仍然是早期更换的强大驱动力。消费者的态度与不同类型的过时相互作用：技术参与度较高的用户更能容忍材料和功能的下降，而倾向于维修的消费者则不太可能因为材料磨损而更换设备。此外，随着时间的推移，更换行为也在发生变化：对于较旧的智能手机，二手手机的使用寿命明显缩短，而对于较新的设备，用户行为、品牌认知和维修态度发挥着更有影响力的作用——这突显出消费者对可持续性和功能的意识日益增强。这些发现为决策者和制造商提供了见解，强调了可持续商业实践和强有力的监管框架的必要性，以抵消计划报废，并在具有环保意识的市场中推广更持久的产品。

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Broadband infrastructure sharing as a catalyst for rural digital economy: A systematic review for developing countries 宽带基础设施共享作为农村数字经济的催化剂：对发展中国家的系统回顾

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103028

Nyaura Kibinda , Deo Shao , Augustino Mwogosi , Cesilia Mambile

Lack of high-speed broadband connectivity remains a critical barrier to inclusive digital transformation, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Broadband infrastructure sharing has emerged as a viable strategy to overcome this constraint, facilitating network expansion, bridging the digital divide, and consequently stimulating inclusive digital economic growth. Broadband infrastructure sharing allows multiple mobile operators (MNOs) to share network resources, significantly reducing capital and operational costs and expanding rural coverage. However, its deployment is fraught with multifaceted challenges that inhibit its full potential. This systematic review synthesizes existing literature to highlight both the potential benefits and prevailing challenges facing broadband infrastructure-sharing initiatives among MNOs. It further explores enabling policies, technological innovations, and collaborative business models that could accelerate adoption and sustainability. The review offers practical policy, economic, political and research insights to guide the sustainable deployment of broadband infrastructure sharing in underserved areas, thereby contributing to the broader discourse on digital inclusion and rural economic growth.

缺乏高速宽带连接仍然是包容性数字转型的关键障碍，特别是在发展中国家的农村地区。宽带基础设施共享已成为克服这一制约、促进网络扩展、弥合数字鸿沟、从而刺激包容性数字经济增长的可行战略。宽带基础设施共享使多个移动运营商（mno）能够共享网络资源，从而显著降低资本和运营成本，并扩大农村地区的覆盖范围。然而，它的部署充满了多方面的挑战，阻碍了其充分发挥潜力。本系统综述综合了现有文献，强调了移动网络运营商之间宽带基础设施共享举措的潜在好处和当前面临的挑战。它进一步探讨了可以加速采用和可持续性的扶持政策、技术创新和协作商业模式。该报告提供了切实可行的政策、经济、政治和研究见解，以指导宽带基础设施共享在服务欠缺地区的可持续部署，从而促进有关数字包容和农村经济增长的更广泛讨论。

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Through a screen darkly: Toward effective transparency of telecommunications supply chains 透过黑暗的屏幕：迈向电信供应链的有效透明

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103018

Benjamin W. Cramer

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Lawfulness of mass processing personal data to train large language models in China 中国大规模处理个人数据训练大型语言模型的合法性

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103023

Lu Zhang

With the rapid rise of large language models (LLMs), the lawfulness of training them on massive datasets has come under increasing scrutiny. This article examines the issue under Personal Information Protection law (PIPL) of China, focusing on whether a valid legal basis exists for such processing. In particular, it analyzes Article 13(1), which permits the use of publicly available personal data or nonpublic data with the consent of the subject of data. This work asserts that, in practice, LLMs developers face challenges in meeting the consent and purpose limitation requirements of the PIPL leaving limited room for lawful data use. To address this gap, it proposes a “broad input, strict output” approach, easing restrictions during the training stage while enforcing stricter controls at the application phase, and it calls for a more precise allocation of roles among stakeholders to ensure responsible AI development.

随着大型语言模型（llm）的迅速崛起，在海量数据集上训练它们的合法性受到越来越多的审查。本文考察了中国《个人信息保护法》（PIPL）下的这一问题，重点关注此类处理是否存在有效的法律依据。特别是，它分析了第13(1)条，该条款允许在数据主体同意的情况下使用公开可用的个人数据或非公开数据。这项工作断言，在实践中，法学硕士开发人员在满足PIPL的同意和目的限制要求方面面临挑战，这给合法数据使用留下了有限的空间。为了解决这一差距，它提出了一种“广泛投入，严格输出”的方法，在培训阶段放宽限制，在应用阶段实施更严格的控制，并呼吁在利益相关者之间更精确地分配角色，以确保负责任的人工智能发展。

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Generative artificial intelligence in advertising. Field applications in Rio de Janeiro and Catalonia 广告中的生成式人工智能。在巴西里约热内卢和加泰罗尼亚的现场应用

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103033

Jordi Serra-Simón , Mònica Puntí-Brun , Sílvia Espinosa-Mirabet , Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira , Ramón Martín-Guart , Sandro Tôrres de Azevedo

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized industries in various productive sectors on an international level. Advertising agencies are not immune to this reality and have also experienced the effects of AI through the advent and widespread use of technologies that enable the design, creation, editing, and writing of content for the advertising industry. This article allows us to measure the impact of the arrival of AI in several advertising agencies, independent and holding companies (such as McCann and Havas Media) in Rio de Janeiro and Catalonia. The research analyses the use and integration of these programs in creative and productive processes based on 25 in-depth interviews with 13 directors and 12 creatives in both regions. The results show that agencies are using generative AI tools, but for different purposes, and that in some cases, AI is related to the advertising creation process, while in others, it is used for tasks related to the design of strategic communication plans or even the design of prototypes and models. Although there is unanimous agreement on the benefits of AI, there are concerns about ethical issues and its use in the finalists' work. This article allows us to glimpse new lines of research related to the implementation of generative AI tools in advertising creativity, customer relationship management, and advertising production.

人工智能的出现在国际层面上彻底改变了各个生产部门的产业。广告公司也不能幸免于这一现实，通过技术的出现和广泛使用，他们也经历了人工智能的影响，这些技术可以为广告行业设计、创作、编辑和撰写内容。这篇文章让我们能够衡量人工智能在巴西里约热内卢和加泰罗尼亚的几家广告公司、独立和控股公司（如麦肯和哈瓦斯媒体）的到来所产生的影响。该研究基于对两地13位导演和12位创意人员的25次深度访谈，分析了这些计划在创意和生产过程中的使用和整合。结果表明，各机构都在使用生成式人工智能工具，但目的不同，在某些情况下，人工智能与广告创作过程有关，而在其他情况下，它被用于与战略传播计划设计相关的任务，甚至是原型和模型的设计。尽管人们对人工智能的好处达成了一致意见，但人们对道德问题以及人工智能在入围者工作中的使用表示担忧。这篇文章让我们看到了与在广告创意、客户关系管理和广告制作中实施生成人工智能工具相关的新研究方向。

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Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade 建立移动货币走廊和布基纳法索的西非货币联盟内部贸易

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103000

Lamoussa Seydou Lankoande

Intra-African trade remains low, constituting an obstacle to the socio-economic development of the continent. This research looks at the potential influence of mobile money in West Africa on the region's internal trade, focusing specifically on the WAEMU. It thus examines the effect of the establishment of mobile money corridors between Burkina Faso and WAEMU countries on Burkina Faso's trade within the union. The research is based on the gravity model and on data relating to six partners of Burkina Faso in the WAEMU over the period 2000 to 2022. Results obtained using Hausman-Taylor (HT) and generalized least squares (GLS) methods argue that the establishment of mobile money corridors between WAEMU countries increases Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU exports. The inclusion of political stability in the analyses and the use of the Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood (PPML) and propensity score matching (PSM) method corroborate the results. From a broad perspective, these results suggest that the development of mobile money corridors between African countries could play a key role in increasing intra-African trade.

非洲内部贸易仍然很低，对非洲大陆的社会经济发展构成障碍。本研究着眼于西非移动货币对该地区内部贸易的潜在影响，特别关注西非货币联盟。因此，它审查了在布基纳法索和西非货币联盟国家之间建立移动货币走廊对布基纳法索在联盟内贸易的影响。这项研究是基于重力模型和2000年至2022年期间布基纳法索在西非货币联盟的六个合作伙伴的数据。使用Hausman-Taylor （HT）和广义最小二乘（GLS）方法获得的结果表明，在西非货币联盟国家之间建立移动货币走廊增加了布基纳法索在西非货币联盟内部的出口。在分析中纳入政治稳定性以及使用泊松伪最大似然（PPML）和倾向得分匹配（PSM）方法证实了结果。从广泛的角度来看，这些结果表明，非洲国家之间移动货币走廊的发展可以在增加非洲内部贸易方面发挥关键作用。

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Beyond infrastructure: Internet ecosystem resilience and the public good 基础设施之外：互联网生态系统的弹性和公共利益

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.102998

Bronwyn Howell

Telecommunications networks have become one of modern society's critical infrastructures (CIs): things required for everyday life and without which widespread disruption can be expected. Historically, the responsibility for ensuring the resilience of their own infrastructures has lain with the individual network operators. However, the complex ways in which economic and social systems now depend crucially on the efficient functioning of an internet system comprised of multiple different operators across the three internet layers creates an additional value of network resilience that will not be adequately captured in the incentives facing any single operator alone. In these circumstances, society benefits from some collective co-ordination to address the externalities.

As befits a complex nexus of interacting systems, this paper provides a multidisciplinary exploratory examination of the concept of internet ecosystem resilience and its relationship to (foundations in) telecommunications resilience given the challenges posed by increasing systemic complexity. It finds existing arrangements addressing both physical infrastructure and cybersecurity resilience leave important gaps in internet ecosystem resilience, particularly when addressing the wider social and economic consequences of ecosystem interruption. More research into these consequences is indicated, and attention should also be given to addressing the gaps in funding network infrastructure resilience to address continuity in service and benefits accruing from application layer resilience when this is left to network infrastructure providers alone.

电信网络已经成为现代社会的关键基础设施之一：日常生活所需的东西，没有它，广泛的破坏是可以预期的。从历史上看，确保自身基础设施弹性的责任一直落在各个网络运营商身上。然而，经济和社会系统现在的复杂方式主要依赖于由三个互联网层的多个不同运营商组成的互联网系统的有效运作，这创造了网络弹性的额外价值，而任何单个运营商单独面临的激励措施都无法充分体现这一价值。在这种情况下，社会可以从解决外部性的某种集体协作中获益。鉴于系统复杂性的增加所带来的挑战，本文对互联网生态系统弹性的概念及其与电信弹性的关系（基础）进行了多学科的探索性研究，以适应相互作用系统的复杂关系。报告发现，解决物理基础设施和网络安全弹性的现有安排在互联网生态系统弹性方面留下了重要空白，特别是在解决生态系统中断带来的更广泛的社会和经济后果时。对这些后果进行更多的研究表明，还应注意解决网络基础设施弹性资金缺口，以解决服务连续性问题，并在仅留给网络基础设施提供商时从应用层弹性中获得收益。

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Social media access and purposeful use in China: Geospatial patterns and socioeconomic and COVID-19 influences 中国社交媒体访问和有目的使用：地理空间格局、社会经济和COVID-19影响

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103002

James B. Pick, Fang Ren, Avijit Sarkar

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Safeguarding media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies: The role of EU law 保护媒体自由不受人工智能公司的基础设施依赖：欧盟法律的作用

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy

Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.102990

M.Z. van Drunen

An emerging body of journalism studies research has shown how media organizations are growing dependent on external companies to provide AI tools used to inform the public, and the infrastructure needed to develop and deploy these tools. Concurrently, EU lawmakers and legal scholars have developed new regulatory and normative frameworks to safeguard media freedom from large technology companies. However, this work focuses on platforms' control over access to large audiences; it remains unclear how AI companies' power over infrastructure inside newsrooms challenges media freedom. This paper therefore explores how European law should address the challenges to media freedom posed by the media's dependence on the infrastructure controlled by AI companies. It does so in two steps. First, it evaluates why the media's dependence on AI companies poses a challenge to the fundamental right to media freedom. It finds that media organizations' loss of control over the values embedded in the AI tools they use to inform the public poses the most pressing challenge. Second, it explores the suitability of existing EU law to address three conditions (algorithmic opacity, lock-in effects, and resource disparities) for the media's infrastructural reliance on AI companies. It finds that existing EU law does not adequately address these conditions. However, especially horizontal regulation targeting AI tools and the underlying cloud infrastructure do offer regulatory tools that can be applied or adapted to safeguard media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies.

一项新兴的新闻研究表明，媒体机构越来越依赖外部公司提供用于告知公众的人工智能工具，以及开发和部署这些工具所需的基础设施。与此同时，欧盟立法者和法律学者已经制定了新的监管和规范框架，以保护媒体免受大型科技公司的侵害。然而，这项工作关注的是平台对大量受众的控制；目前尚不清楚人工智能公司对新闻编辑室内部基础设施的影响力如何挑战媒体自由。因此，本文探讨了欧洲法律应如何应对媒体对人工智能公司控制的基础设施的依赖对媒体自由构成的挑战。它分两步完成。首先，它评估了为什么媒体对人工智能公司的依赖对媒体自由的基本权利构成了挑战。报告发现，媒体机构对其用于向公众传播信息的人工智能工具中嵌入的价值观失去控制，这是最紧迫的挑战。其次，它探讨了现有欧盟法律在解决媒体对人工智能公司的基础设施依赖的三个条件（算法不透明、锁定效应和资源差距）方面的适用性。它发现，现有的欧盟法律没有充分解决这些问题。然而，特别是针对人工智能工具和底层云基础设施的横向监管确实提供了监管工具，可以应用或调整这些工具，以保护媒体自由，使其免受对人工智能公司基础设施的依赖。

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