Research on the Question: Will the Social Media Market be Competitive in the Long Run and can Short-Term Monopoly Benefit the Social Media Market?

Xiaotong Wu; Mian Wang; Xinyue Chen

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Research on the Question: Will the Social Media Market be Competitive in the Long Run and can Short-Term Monopoly Benefit the Social Media Market?

Take Facebook and TikTok as Examples

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Xiaotong Wu¹^{, *}, Mian Wang², Xinyue Chen³

¹Hangzhou Foreign Language School, Hangzhou, 310023, China

²Xiamen No.2 High school, Xiamen, 361000, China

³Ningbo Foreign Language School, Ningbo, 315121, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: 158343369@qq.com

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Xiaotong Wu

Available Online 27 December 2022.

DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_142 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Monopoly; competition; TikTok; Facebook; time periods
Abstract: Today, the social media markets are thriving and there is a certain degree of monopolistic power in this market. To figure out more about the monopoly, this article depicts the influences of monopoly in this industry and whether social media market is still competitive in the long run. Besides, this work will mainly combine arguments and tables with the real issues related to Facebook and TikTok in the social media industry and the paper will also analyse the diverse effects of monopoly in the industry. The results of this paper show that despite the existence of monopoly in the short run, social media industry is still very competitive in the long run and the short-run monopoly can actually bring several benefits to consumers. The significance of this paper is to show detailedly about the situation of monopoly in social media markets in a way of focusing on different time periods.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2022)
Series: Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date: 27 December 2022
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_142
ISSN: 2352-5428
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_142 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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