Monopolies of knowledge arise when the ruling class maintains political power through control of key communications technologies. The Canadian economic...

Examples of this problem are adverse selection, moral hazard, and monopolies of knowledge. A common way to visualise information asymmetry is with a scale...

According to Harold Innis, monopolies of knowledge eventually face challenges to their power, especially with the arrival of new media. He pointed for...

understanding, power is based on knowledge and makes use of knowledge; on the other hand, power reproduces knowledge by shaping it in accordance with...

Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional...

create monopolies. Despite the Committee of Grievances, a body chaired by Sir Edward Coke that abolished a large number of monopolies, a wave of protest...

threatened, however, when monopolies of knowledge exist favouring some media over others. Empire and Communications examines the impact of media such as stone...

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a monopoly. Therefore, well-known American economists Samuelson and Nordhaus pointed out that economies of scope can also produce natural monopolies. Companies...

however, when monopolies of knowledge exist favouring some media over others. In his 1947 presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada, Innis remarked:...

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pointed to as an example of the democratization of knowledge, but Malte Herwig in Der Spiegel raised concerns that the virtual monopoly Google has in the search...

powerful sorcerers and astrologers, in large part owing to their monopoly on knowledge of writing, termed sorabe, which uses the Arabic script to transcribe...

facilities or natural monopolies and regulated as public utilities." A monopoly is defined as "a firm that is the only seller of a product or service having...

history of communication studies'. Communication, 10, 1988, 97–119. 'Monopolies of knowledge in Canadian communication studies: The case of feminist...

basic principles of current patent laws. The Statute of Monopolies (1624) and the British Statute of Anne (1710) are seen as the origins of the current patent...

sheikhs and the government had exercised a monopoly over knowledge. Now an expanding elite benefitted from a stream of information on virtually anything that...

Operation Monopoly was a covert plan by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build a tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington...

with different aspects of limited monopolies on knowledge. As an observer to WIPO and together with a global coalition of other players with similar goals...

The Cost of Knowledge is a protest by academics against the business practices of academic journal publisher Elsevier. Among the reasons for the protests...

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a non-governmental organization. It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on...

domains of discourse, text, language, or identity. She critiques monopolies of knowledge and power in education, and advocates dialogical and inclusive...

Europe 1400 years later. Prior to the written word there was a monopoly of knowledge by priests. (Innes: 1991, p. 4) This was because literacy was seen...

might possess potentials to develop various radical monopolies, while education might be one of the main vehicles for such developments." Illich extends...

creation of seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures...

historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and...

(China National Knowledge Infrastructure; Chinese: 中国知网) is a private-owned publishing company in China since 2014. It operates databases of academic journals...