Free: The Future of a Radical Price

By C. Anderson. 2009

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Smart Cities and Green Growth: Outsourcing Democratic and Environmental Resilience to the Global Technology Sector (2014, background): “The rise of social media and Web 2.0 together with the drastically reduced cost of web-enabled technologies to consumers are at the heart of this ‘democratisation’ (Anderson, 2006; 2009).”
Production, Consumption, Prosumption (2010, background): “The costs for companies to host vast amounts of digital content is dropping and the sheer number of users creating content on sites such as Facebook is increasing, leading to a market increasingly characterized by abundance (Anderson, 2009).”
The Coming of Age of the Prosumer (2012, background): “It is on Internet sites that prosumers experience the greatest material gains mainly because of the fact that their willingness to work for no pay is met with, perhaps even induced by, the availability of a series of products offered free of charge (Anderson, 2009).”
The value of data: considering the context of production in data economies (2011, background): “A culture of data management associated with networked file sharing, open source software development communities and “the knowledge economy” now dominates popular, corporate, academic and policy discussions about the maintenance and availability of large datasets [1,14].”
Content or Community? A Digital Business Strategy for Content Providers in the Social Age (2013, background): “5 and 15 percent, but are often on the low side (Anderson 2009).”
What drives purchase intention for paid mobile apps? - An expectation confirmation model with perceived value (2015, background): “However, if a similar product is offered at a price of zero, the customer will be more than willing to buy because they feel no risk of making a wrong decision (Anderson 2009).”
The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation: Public Attention in an Age of Digital Media (2012, background): “First, the pure ''public good'' nature of digital media makes them easy to reproduce, and often ''free'' (Anderson, 2009).”
Social Learning Analytics (2012, background): “Andersen (2009) documents many ways in which online companies are able to offer quality services free of charge, producing an increasing expectation on the part of end-users of huge choice between free tools and sources of content hosted ‘in the cloud’.”