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Public vs. private interest on the internet

Communications of the ACM, 2007
Why network owners should not be the sole arbiters of access to networks, including the Internet.
Abbe Mowshowitz, Nanda Kumar
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Interest-driven private friend recommendation

Knowledge and Information Systems, 2013
The emerging growth of online social networks has opened new doors for various kinds of applications such as business intelligence and expanding social connections through friend recommendations. In particular, friend recommendation facilitates users to explore new friendships based on social network structures, user profile information (similar ...
Bharath K. Samanthula, Wei Jiang 0026
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MODERNIZATION AND PRIVATE INTERESTS

European Journal of Sociology, 2004
VISITORS TO INDIA over the past several decades have often remarked on the shoddy quality of many of its manufactured goods. How could a country with large numbers of talented engineers and business-people keep on reproducing, decade after decade, a more or less unchanged version of the British Morris motorcar from 1955?
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The Private Interests of Labour

1985
In the political culture of the market, the trade unions are above all the brokers of the private interests of labour, the producing class, and not the opponents of the capitalist system. Brokerage is their social and economic function: they could not avoid it even if they chose to; and they do not choose to.
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National Interests and Private Interests in Policy Making

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1991
ABSTRACT This article takes up Ozga & McNay's (1985, p. 4) challenge to bring together case study analysis and sociological perspectives on policy making. It starts with a theoretical position which seeks to benefit from materialist and pluralist theories and then uses the case study to validate the position.
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The ‘Unconquerable Private Interests’

2002
The types of anti-economics examined in Parts II and III are ‘public’; they are hostile to economics on account of some supposed offence to public life. In this chapter we turn to a species of economics which is the diametric opposite, that is ‘private’.
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Database Research: Public and Private Interests

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2011
It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to participation in population data collections.
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Educational superhighways ‐ in the public or private interest?

Internet Research, 1999
Considers the world‐wide emergence of “educational superhighway” policies: government programmes aiming to connect school systems to the Internet ‐ and explores their relevance to education. By examining the key actors and motives behind educational Internet initiatives the paper argues that such policies are primarily economically not educationally ...
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Private Interests and Democracy

2010
A paradox exists at the heart of the democratic system: how to ensure that the democratic process expresses the general interests of society as a whole, rather than just the particular interests of an ad hoc (or even long-term) coalition of particular interests, who agree a policy programme on the basis of ‘horse trading’ at the expense of the rest of ...
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Resources and Private Interests

2018
It is not always about money. To achieve the goals set by member-states and those generated within international government organizations, partners often bring far more to the table than cash. While financial pressure is a constant, partnerships often succeed because of partner expertise; physical resources ranging from things as simple as fuel, to as ...
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