Scholarly accounts of the global rise of statistical credit scoring technologies have tended to portray these automated, digitised systems as supplanting human involvement in lending. This paper examines Chinese migrant factory workers’ encounters with Ant Credit Pay, Alipay’s novel consumer credit facility (which utilises the Zhima Credit scoring system). Drawing on ethnographic data, we document how workers come to understand Ant Credit Pay through the depersonalising and re-personalising processes they associate with it. Workers prefer its depersonalised mode of lending over borrowing from banks, friends, or family. However, they nonetheless also attempt to re-personalise Ant Credit Pay through propagating the belief that human-style log...
This paper analyses situated uses of digital payment platforms, contributing to the sociology of mon...
Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the over-indebted Kenyan state was unable to stabilise ...
The international governance discourse has seen radical changes in both trends and understandings in...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Scholars of Chinese society have predominantly regarded the region’s money to represent an unusually...
Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video.Tom McDonald, Assistant Profess...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Building on three interconnected essays, the thesis unpacks and interrogates a basic question: “who ...
Digital credit scoring is driving a number of significant transformations in Chinese economy and soc...
The Social Credit System (SCS) in China is a conspicuous example of a citizen scoring system that ai...
In recent times, the social credit systems (SCS) and similar AI-driven mass surveillance systems hav...
China has developed a technological Social Credit System that monitors, collects, and analyses behav...
The Covid19 crisis has triggered a new wave of digitalization of the lives of citizens. To counter t...
Part 2: Social Media and Design InnovationInternational audienceWhile research studies of digital an...
This paper analyses situated uses of digital payment platforms, contributing to the sociology of mon...
Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the over-indebted Kenyan state was unable to stabilise ...
The international governance discourse has seen radical changes in both trends and understandings in...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Scholars of Chinese society have predominantly regarded the region’s money to represent an unusually...
Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video.Tom McDonald, Assistant Profess...
Digital payment systems Alipay and Wechat Pay, created only a few years ago, are now used daily by h...
Building on three interconnected essays, the thesis unpacks and interrogates a basic question: “who ...
Digital credit scoring is driving a number of significant transformations in Chinese economy and soc...
The Social Credit System (SCS) in China is a conspicuous example of a citizen scoring system that ai...
In recent times, the social credit systems (SCS) and similar AI-driven mass surveillance systems hav...
China has developed a technological Social Credit System that monitors, collects, and analyses behav...
The Covid19 crisis has triggered a new wave of digitalization of the lives of citizens. To counter t...
Part 2: Social Media and Design InnovationInternational audienceWhile research studies of digital an...
This paper analyses situated uses of digital payment platforms, contributing to the sociology of mon...
Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the over-indebted Kenyan state was unable to stabilise ...
The international governance discourse has seen radical changes in both trends and understandings in...