Conflict of conventions? What a social sciences view can reveal about the interconnection deal between Netflix and Comcast
Uta Meier-Hahn
When Netflix and Comcast recently announced that the video service's data will be poured into the Comcast network more directly, interconnection agreements were put in the spotlight as economic practices. However, economic action happens in a social context. The concept of economics of convention can help us see the social in internet interconnection.
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