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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ABSTRACT: Technological change in the digital age is a combination of both more and better technology. This work quantifies how much of the technologically-mediated information and communication...

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ABSTRACT: The article provides first-time empirical evidence that the digital age has first increased and then (only very recently) decreased global, international and national inequalities of information...

The Information Society ABSTRACT This article asks whether the global process of digitization has led to noteworthy changes in the shares of the amount of text, images, audio, and video in worldwide technologically stored and communicated...

Significance ABSTRACT: We know our brave new world is being transformed by data. But how much more of it is there than before? This article explores, and finds huge untapped capacity to process information. Hilbert, M....

Science ABSTRACT: We estimated  the world’s technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information, tracking 60 analog and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007. In 2007, humankind was able to store 2.9 × 1020...

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Abstract: Early literature on e-democracy was dominated by euphoric claims about the benefits of e-voting (digital direct democracy) or continuous online citizen consultations (digital representative democracy). High expectations have gradually...