If platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the engines of social media use,
what is the gasoline? The answer can be found in the psychological dynamics behind …

TikTok is commonly known as a playful, silly platform where teenagers share 15-second
videos of crazy stunts or act out funny snippets from popular culture. In the past few years, it …

ABSTRACT 'FinTech'is the digital sector of retail money and finance widely proclaimed to be
transforming banking in the global North and 'banking the unbanked'in the global South …

This paper examines how digital gamification techniques, which incorporate video gaming
elements (rather than full-fledged games) into apps, are resha** the logics and practices …

It is widely claimed that financial technology democratizes financial access and promotes
financial inclusion. This paper challenges this dominant narrative of financial technology …

Background: Existing mental health treatments are insufficient for addressing mental health
needs at scale, particularly for teenagers, who now seek mental health information and …

Technologies have been theorised to understand their powers to produce spacetimes–
notably through Bernard Stiegler's reading of technics as constitutive of human ontology …

This commentary explores the feasibility of blockchain technologies (and cryptocurrencies)
in contesting the power of centralized, corporate platforms. While proponents of blockchain …

This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa.
First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers …

Drawing on a techno-feminist approach, this article foregrounds the socio-technological
process of beauty app development in China's high-tech industry. I conducted semi …