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        <pubDate>2026-10-18T21:58:04.927+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trust in voice-based assistants: a multidimensional conceptualization based on in-home user interviews]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Katharina Frehmann</author><author>Marc Ziegele</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Voice-based assistants (VBAs) such as Alexa and Siri are widely used in everyday life and increasingly act as information intermediaries. Their human-like voices and behaviors can elicit social responses, while new assistants based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT voice mode, further blur the boundaries between machine and human communicators. Despite risks associated with misinformation and limited data transparency, adoption remains high. Trust may be relevant to users’ relationships with conversational AI, but there is little consensus on how it should be conceptualized. Technical, interpersonal, and media trust frameworks may all be applicable. This multi-method qualitative study examined users’ subjective concepts of trust through 22 in-home interviews complemented by observational tasks involving participants’ own VBAs and ChatGPT voice mode. Participants drew on interpersonal concepts when defining trust but commonly restricted trust in VBAs to particular tasks and functions. Technical and media-related trustworthiness criteria were especially prominent, whereas social responses and anthropomorphic qualities did not necessarily translate into interpersonal trust. Experience, calibrated expectations, selective use, habitual engagement, and trust were described as closely interrelated. Although ChatGPT was often evaluated positively, particularly as an information intermediary, its perceived capabilities were not uniformly accompanied by greater trust compared with participants’ familiar VBAs. Based on these findings, we propose a preliminary conceptual framework of task-specific hybrid trust in VBAs.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ethics, computation, and institutional linkages in AI and mental-health research]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-13T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Moses Boudourides</author><author>Niko Männikkö</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) and mental-health research spans distinct clinical, technical, and care-oriented problem areas. We constructed a publication-centred relational dataset from Dimensions.ai, comprising 7,146 rule-defined, high-specificity AI-and-mental-health publications, 3,022 linked grants, and 214 linked policy documents. A four-component nonnegative matrix factorization of publication titles and abstracts provided a stable operational partition: mental-health risk prediction, digital mental-health care and ethics, social and affective detection, and neuropsychiatric assessment. Compared with digital mental-health care and ethics, risk prediction and neuropsychiatric assessment had substantially higher adjusted odds of recorded funding support. Policy-document coverage through 2021 was lower for neuropsychiatric assessment and social and affective detection; risk prediction did not differ reliably. Across the thematic corpus, publication funding-support and policy-document coverage relations co-occurred on the same publications more often than expected under a publication-year-stratified permutation null. We also describe author-affiliation, funder, and policy-issuer institutions and countries for each theme. The findings concern recorded database relations and thematic text structure; they do not establish causal effects, institutional intent, policy endorsement, or policy impact.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Institutional-based social network resources, social resource orchestration competence, and business growth of manufacturing small and medium enterprises: evidence from Kenya]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-08T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Loise Wanjiru Kanotha Oburu</author><author>Joseph Odhiambo Onyango</author><author>Anne Ndirangu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe sustainable growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing in developing economies depends significantly on how firms harness institutional social networks as strategic resources. Despite growing scholarship on social capital and firm performance, the mechanisms by which institutionally based social network resources — comprising regulatory, normative, and cultural-cognitive networks — translate into business growth remain insufficiently theorised. Specifically, the moderating role of social resource orchestration competence (SROC) in converting institutional network resources into firm growth value has not been empirically examined among Kenyan manufacturing SMEs.MethodsA quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 393 purposively selected respondents — comprising business owners, heads of operations, and heads of finance — drawn from Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM)-registered manufacturing SMEs across 14 sub-sectors in Nairobi County, Kenya. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted in SmartPLS 4.0, preceded by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to establish reliability and validity. Convergent and discriminant validity, as well as collinearity, were assessed using established thresholds before path analysis was conducted.ResultsDirect path analysis confirmed significant positive associations of regulatory (β = 0.332, p < 0.05), normative (β = 0.285, p < 0.05), and cultural-cognitive resource networks (β = 0.162, p < 0.05) with SME growth. When SROC was introduced as a moderator, it emerged as the dominant growth factor (β = 0.543, p < 0.05). SROC significantly amplified the association of regulatory resource networks with SME growth (β = 0.162, p < 0.05) and attenuated the contribution of cultural-cognitive networks (β = −0.429, p < 0.05), while having no significant moderating effect on normative resource networks.DiscussionThese findings advance Social Exchange Theory by offering preliminary evidence that the economic value of institutional network exchanges varies with the firm's SROC. The study introduces the Social Exchange Orchestration Grid (SEOG) — a novel theoretical framework that maps the differential economic value of institutional network archetypes against SROC — providing manufacturing SME managers with a strategic tool for prioritising institutional network investments. Implications for SME policy in sub-Saharan Africa are discussed, with an emphasis on building orchestration capabilities as a potentially more critical investment than network acquisition per se.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital inclusion, trust, and experience quality: a conceptual framework for smart tourism technology acceptance in fast-digitalising destinations, with illustration from Uzbekistan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Yulduz Dushanova</author><author>Ergash Ibadullaev</author><author>Bokhodir Isroilov</author><author>Dilfuza Khamzaeva</author><author>Jasur Kushmanov</author>
        <description><![CDATA[When a state digitalises the gateway to its territory faster than its population and its visitors acquire the competence to pass through it, digital inequality becomes a cross-border condition. Tourism is where that encounter happens at scale, yet research on tourists' acceptance of smart tourism technologies carries three assumptions that hold only under mature and shared digital infrastructure: digital capability is a facilitating condition rather than a stratified resource governing whether an unassisted evaluation can occur; trust is one belief aimed at one object, although a visitor abroad must judge a platform, a payment rail, a provider, and a state at once; and experience quality is a terminal outcome, which conceals its role as a source of revision for later judgements inside the same trip. This conceptual analysis develops an alternative account grounded in digital inequality research, trust transfer theory, expectation disconfirmation, and negativity asymmetry. It reconstructs digital inclusion as two pre-use gating tiers (functional access, enacted competence) and one post-use outcome tier (realised conversion); separates trust into four referents joined by association-conditioned transfer and by calibration; and models experience quality as recursive and asymmetrically sensitive to breakdown. The elements are combined in the Digital Inclusion, Trust, Acceptance and Experience (DITAE) framework, stated as eight propositions and three bridging mechanisms with theoretical anchors, an illustrative measurement specification, and a four-stage research agenda organised by estimand. The counter-case for existing models is examined rather than assumed away. Uzbekistan, where high aggregate connectivity coexists with uneven competence and where entry and registration run through state platforms, illustrates the configuration; the illustration is contextual and does not test the framework. The central implication is that identical pre-encounter intentions can conceal sharply unequal realised outcomes, so intention alone is an unsafe indicator of inclusive digital transformation. No new empirical data are reported.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The role of digital management control systems on TQM practices and employee performance: an empirical study on Saudi service organizations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Salma Elhag</author><author>Mariah Alaseeri</author><author>Taif Alsharif</author><author>Nada Almatrafi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study explores how Digital Management Control Systems (MCS) affect employee performance in Saudi service organizations by focusing on the role of Total Quality Management (TQM 4.0) that aims to address the growing need for digital integration in the Kingdom's evolving economy. Data was collected from 108 employees across different service organizations. Using statistical methods like linear regression and mediation analysis to test the relationships. Additionally, quality tools such as Pareto charts and fishbone diagrams were used to identify implementation barriers. The results show a full mediation effect. This means that digital systems do not improve performance directly instead, they improve quality practices first, which then strongly boosts employee performance. This suggests that quality management serves as the essential mechanism through which digital tools generate value. The study also found that employees’ resistance to change is the biggest challenge to digital transformation. This highlights the importance of addressing human factors alongside technical upgrades to achieve successful organizational change. Finally, the research proposes a digital dashboard mockup to help managers easily monitor performance and solve these issues. Also, a study proves that investing in technology is most effective when combined with strong quality management practices.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Socio-legal, ethical, technical and medical considerations on neuroprivacy and brain-machine interaction technologies in the era of A.I.]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Gianluigi M. Riva</author><author>Simona Tiribelli</author><author>Giovanni Ziccardi</author><author>Surjo R. Soekadar</author><author>Sara Colantonio</author><author>Agusti Solanas</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too hot to give birth? Temperature shocks and general fertility rates in Japan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Qifan Fu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This paper studies how alternative measures of ambient temperature change the estimated short-run relationship between heat and fertility. I combine monthly vital statistics for all 47 Japanese prefectures from 2012 through 2019 with daily weather reconstructed from raw station records. The outcome is the monthly general fertility rate, defined as live births per 1,000 women ages 15–49. Models include complete temperature-bin vectors, lagged precipitation and missing-weather controls, year-month fixed effects, prefecture-by-calendar-month fixed effects, and prefecture-by-year fixed effects. A day with a minimum temperature of at least 25∘C is associated with 0.39 and 0.25 percent lower fertility nine and ten months later. A day with a mean temperature of at least 30∘C is associated with 0.50 percent lower fertility at lag ten. In contrast, the maximum-temperature result is borderline at lag nine, insignificant at lag ten, and disappears when complete mean-temperature bins enter jointly. The evidence therefore points more consistently to sustained heat and limited nighttime cooling than to a brief daytime peak. Dynamic analysis and the recorded-fetal-death check do not identify whether the fertility estimates reflect conception timing, early pregnancy loss, gestational length, or another mechanism. The birth-rate estimates capture short-run reductions or displacement around the gestational horizon, not changes in completed fertility.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aesthetic experience and perceived interactional accessibility in award-winning video games: a mixed-methods study using MDA–DDE with gamers in Guayaquil, Ecuador]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Alonso Eduardo Veloz Arce</author><author>Mauricio Pérez Moreno</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study examines the aesthetic experience in award-winning video games using a multidimensional approach that integrates the Mechanics–Dynamics–Aesthetics (MDA) and Design–Dynamics–Experience (DDE) frameworks. The objective is to analyze how the aesthetic experience is shaped and perceived by players, particularly in relation to perceived interactional accessibility. A mixed-methods approach with a qualitative focus was employed, combining a theoretical review with empirical data obtained from an overall sample of 31 mid-core and hard-core gamers in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Partially overlapping game-specific subsamples participated in supervised gameplay sessions (Astro Bot, n = 19; Helldivers 2, n = 19; Hi-Fi Rush, n = 17; The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, n = 11), followed by structured assessment questionnaires. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four international experts in video game design and development. Quantitatively, 84% (n = 16/19) of Astro Bot participants associated the limited narrative focus with easier entry into the gameplay experience; in Helldivers 2, 84% (n = 16/19) valued the shared-lives system as a source of challenge and 74% (n = 14/19) associated gameplay with cooperative dynamics; in Hi-Fi Rush, 59% (n = 10/17) expressed dissatisfaction with the tutorial, while 88% (n = 15/17) considered musical feedback essential; and in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, 45% (n = 5/11) reported interruptions in gameplay flow and 73% (n = 8/11) identified joy as the predominant emotional response. The findings suggest that perceived interactional accessibility may emerge from the relationship between mechanics, design clarity, sensory feedback, and player experience. This study provides a hybrid analytical model that expands current approaches to aesthetic experience in interactive media.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond digital health: public and community digital interventions for migrant psychosocial well-being in Spain and Argentina]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Anabel Melguizo-Garín</author><author>Gisele Kleidermacher</author><author>Cecilia Melella</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe rapid digitalization of services for migrant populations has transformed the ways in which information, guidance, and social support are delivered. However, existing research has primarily focused on clinical digital mental health interventions or on migrants' own uses of digital technologies, paying considerably less attention to digital devices developed by public institutions and community organizations. This study comparatively analyzes four digital intervention devices implemented in Spain and Argentina, two public and two community-based, to examine how they may contribute to psychosocial well-being from a social determinants of health perspective.Methods and ResultsUsing a qualitative design based on digital ethnography and comparative thematic content analysis, the study explores the characteristics, functions, and intervention strategies of these digital resources, with particular attention to their roles in information provision, guidance, psychosocial support, and community participation. The findings show that these digital resources function as hybrid intervention ecosystems that integrate technological tools, professional support, and community networks rather than merely providing information. Four predominant intervention models were identified: administrative-information, institutional guidance and service access, rights-based community, and community guidance, accompaniment, and referral.DiscussionTogether, these models offer a novel analytical framework for understanding the diverse roles of digital interventions in migration contexts. Rather than providing direct therapeutic care, these devices contribute to psychosocial well-being by reducing barriers to access, strengthening social support networks, promoting rights, and facilitating connections with specialized services. By shifting the focus from clinical digital health to digital social intervention ecosystems, this study expands current debates on digital interventions for migrant populations and provides practical implications for the development of more inclusive, accessible, and culturally responsive digital resources aimed at promoting psychosocial well-being.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Affective governance theory: rethinking organisational control in digitally mediated organisations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Nthabeleng Innocentia Mdhluli</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital work is increasingly organised through communication platforms, workflow systems, electronic monitoring and algorithmic systems. Existing research already shows that digital technologies create affordances, structure choice, intensify visibility and support algorithmic and datafication-based control. The unresolved issue is therefore not whether digital systems influence behaviour, but how recurrent digital cues become organisationally linked to norms and anticipated consequences strongly enough to acquire stable affective and evaluative force. This paper formulates Affective Governance Theory (AGT) as a new mid-range theory of organisational control. Using an abductive conceptual model-building approach, the analysis integrates organisational control, digital affordances and sociomateriality, algorithmic and datafication control, digital nudging and persuasive technology, surveillance, affect theory and work-design scholarship. Theory development proceeds through anomaly specification, comparison of alternative explanations, iterative construct formation, discriminant and boundary testing, and recursive model derivation. AGT proposes that digital work infrastructures become affective configurations when four conditions co-occur: recurrent dependence, evaluative legibility, organisational norm linkage and anticipated relational or professional consequences. Three mutually reinforcing mechanisms, affective inscription, anticipatory self-regulation and the moral economy of digital presence, explain how these configurations orient behaviour and become recursively reproduced. Seven propositions specify emergence, operation, discriminant effects, sustainable-work consequences and structural amplification. AGT does not claim that digital design, monitoring or algorithms shaping behaviour are new. Its contribution is to theorise the organisational conversion of recurrent digital affordances into relatively stable affective governance structures and to generate predictions that can be tested against surveillance, algorithmic control, nudging and normative control. Practically, AGT offers a diagnostic for identifying when digital work design turns visibility, response latency and online presence into informal governance demands. It thereby connects responsible digital transformation with employee autonomy, recovery, dignity, well-being and equity.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Human-centered AI adoption for small and medium-sized enterprise competitiveness: a methodological perspective on digital capabilities and organizational adaptation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Layli Navruz-zoda</author><author>Sulton Najmiddinov</author><author>Sarvar Norboev</author><author>Ergash Ibadullaev</author><author>Mir Timur Zakirov</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are widely expected to benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), yet adoption remains uneven and many firms stall after an initial pilot. Capability-based research has established that internal digital and dynamic capabilities predict adoption and performance more strongly than external support, but it rarely specifies the design conditions under which employees keep using a tool long enough for capability to form, and the organizational adaptation through which capability becomes performance is usually inferred rather than observed. This Perspective proposes the Human-Centered AI Adoption Framework to join those literatures. The framework links four human-centered principles, a deliberately restricted subset concerned with control, comprehension, appropriate use and accountability, to the capability microfoundations of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring; treats structural, cultural and human-capital adaptation as the realized organizational state that reconfiguring produces, distinct from the activity itself; and distinguishes four dimensions of competitiveness that realize in a characteristic order, alongside worker outcomes treated as ends rather than only as means. A cross-cutting safeguards dimension records the wider requirements of responsible AI whose SME-scale mechanisms are not yet specified. Two objectives are expressed as six propositions, each paired with candidate indicators and a design capable of testing it. Because the article presents no original data, the propositions are candidates for validation rather than results.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Digital citizenship in the new era of social media]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Cristóbal Fernández Muñoz</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[The algorithmic perception paradox: personalization, news diversity, and trust among young UAE news users]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Areen Al-Zoubi</author><author>Samira Setoutah</author><author>Faycal Farhi</author><author>Samira Belghitia</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Research on algorithmic news personalization remains disproportionately anchored in Western media contexts, leaving the Arab Gulf only thinly theorized. This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study examines how young digital news users in the United Arab Emirates understand personalization, news diversity, and institutional trust. A survey of 300 UAE residents aged 18 to 35 was followed by 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews. Across the quantitative phase, a consistent pattern emerged: stronger perceived personalization was associated with lower perceived diversity and lower trust in online news. TikTok-primary users reported lower perceived diversity than users of YouTube or X, whereas proactive practices such as fact-checking were positively associated with both diversity perceptions and trust. Interview accounts clarified the mechanism behind these associations. Participants valued recommendation systems for their efficiency, yet repeatedly described them as opaque, commercially calibrated, and difficult to contest. The study advances the Algorithmic Perception Paradox as a theoretical concept for explaining how relevance and suspicion can coexist within personalized news environments. Rather than treating this paradox as a local anomaly, the article conceptualizes it as a structural dynamic linking surveillance-capitalist curation to audiences’ lived sense that informational trust depends not only on what is shown, but also on what may be withheld.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quantum sovereignty and constitutional asymmetry: mapping the sovereignty gap in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-23T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Karen L. Orengo-Serra</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Quantum technologies are advancing faster than the institutional capacities of most small island jurisdictions, creating a structural vulnerability that remains largely unaddressed. This article introduces the Quantum Sovereignty Gap (QSG) to explain why Puerto Rico (PR) and the Dominican Republic (DR) risk entering the quantum era without the infrastructural, regulatory, or strategic foundations required for autonomy. Using documentary analysis, a 0–2 scoring matrix, and a qualitative evidence audit trail, the study evaluates the extent to which both jurisdictions exhibit quantum-ready intent. The findings reveal stark asymmetries: PR remains structurally dependent due to long-standing constraints in technological autonomy, externally oriented R&D incentives, and reliance on U.S.-based FedRAMP cloud infrastructures, while the DR shows emerging infrastructural autonomy through its Sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative and NVIDIA Memorandum of Understanding but faces significant implementation friction. Both territories lack a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) transition roadmap, exposing them to high systemic risk ahead of Quantum Decryption Day (“QDay”). The article reframes quantum preparedness as a question of structural power and identifies a potential regional opportunity through a PR–DR quantum corridor.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Vulnerability, climate loss and damage, and resilience: climate action and financing for transformation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Hemant Ojha</author><author>Priyanka Gurung</author><author>Basundhara Bhattarai</author><author>Bhim Adhikari</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[The creative digital city of Guadalajara, Mexico. Disruption of a traditional grid]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Juan A. Demerutis-Arenas</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionIn 2011, Guadalajara won a national competition to develop the Digital Creative City (DCC) to revitalize its declining historic center using a “Smart City” model. This paper analyzes the “disruption of a traditional grid” as a multi-dimensional departure from 20th-century paradigms, examining transitions in economic vocation, urban configuration, and institutional structuresMethodsThe study employs a qualitative, exploratory case study design. It utilizes a triangulation of longitudinal data through 2026, combining information from district promoters, census data, observations, and interviews with employees and neighbors to evaluate the project.ResultsThe findings identify a significant gap between theoretical innovation district models and the DCC's operational reality. Although the DCC is architecturally congruent with global standards, it faces critical challenges—such as population decline and persistent urban insecurity—that prevent the “creative class” from fully adopting the intended “live-work-play” lifestyle.Discussion/ConclusionThe study concludes by defining a future framework for digital creative districts. It emphasizes the need to integrate adaptive governance with resilient urban design strategies, demographic revitalization, and measures to mitigate adverse social outcomes like gentrification and displacement.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence as a catalyst for poverty alleviation in Africa: challenges, opportunities, and pathways for inclusion]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Review</category>
        <author>Emmanuel Ndhlovu</author><author>David Mhlanga</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers much hope as a poverty alleviation tool in Africa, with the potential to address critical challenges across sectors such as agriculture and education. This article explores how AI-driven solutions can optimise resource allocation, improve service delivery, and empower Africa's marginalised populations, thus creating pathways for poverty reduction and fostering inclusive growth. Underpinned by a critical document analysis research strategy, this article examines the opportunities and risks of AI integration in Africa. It also proposes some policy recommendations to ensure equitable and sustainable deployment. The article argues that leveraging AI offers potential to improve food production, information, enhance credit access, alleviate food insecurity, address energy poverty, and promote financial inclusion. However, it also shows that integrating AI introduces new challenges, such as job displacement, increased energy consumption, and deeper economic imbalances. The article contributes to the global discourse on harnessing advanced technologies to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 1: Ending Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The influence of exposure to AI-generated social media content on verification intention: the mediating effect of trust and the moderating effect of AI literacy]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Alaa Turki Al-Mugheed</author><author>Islam Habis Mohammad Hatamleh</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study examines associations between exposure to AI-generated social media content and verification intention, with trust as an intervening statistical pathway and AI literacy as a moderator. A quantitative cross-sectional survey yielded 1,150 valid responses from a geographically diverse, university-centered convenience sample of social media users in Jordan. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) showed that exposure was negatively associated with trust in AI-generated content and positively associated with verification intention. Trust was negatively associated with verification intention, and the estimated indirect association through trust was significant. AI literacy was positively associated with verification intention and moderated the trust-verification association, which was weaker among respondents with higher AI literacy. These results extend research on AI communication, digital literacy, and misinformation by examining exposure, trust, and AI literacy within one integrated model. Because the design is cross-sectional and relies on self-reported intentions and convenience sampling, the findings indicate associations rather than causal effects and should not be generalized to all Jordanian social media users.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Statistical and machine learning analysis of fiscal and monetary policy determinants of human development in high-HDI countries]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Andre Amaral</author><author>Taysir E. Dyhoum</author><author>Mnerh Alqahtani</author><author>Amirah S. Alharthi</author><author>Hassan M. Aljohani</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionUnderstanding how fiscal and monetary policies influence human development remains a fundamental challenge in economics and public policy. This study investigates the relationships between fiscal, monetary, and socioeconomic indicators and the Human Development Index (HDI) using cross-sectional data from 49 high-HDI countries. By integrating interpretable statistical methods with machine learning techniques, the study aims to identify the key determinants of human development and provide evidence to support effective policy- making.MethodsA comprehensive analytical framework was developed using correlation analy- sis, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, suppression effect analysis, and machine learning (ML) techniques. The analysis examined the relationships between HDI and a range of macroeconomic and socioeconomic variables, including gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, inflation, debt-to-GDP ratio, interest rates, unemployment, average income tax rates, life expectancy, and years of education.ResultsThe results demonstrate that GDP per capita, life expectancy, and educational attainment are the strongest predictors of HDI among high-HDI countries. In contrast, interest rates and the debt-to-GDP ratio exhibit indirect (suppressive) effects that become apparent only after accounting for interactions among explanatory variables. The combined statistical and machine learning analyses provide complementary insights into the relative importance of these determinants.DiscussionThe findings highlight the importance of considering both direct and indirect relationships when evaluating the impact of macroeconomic policies on human development. By combining interpretable statistical approaches with machine learning techniques, this study provides a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of human development in high-HDI countries. The results provide practical evidence to support the design of balanced fiscal and monetary policies that promote sustainable economic development and improve human well- being, and they establish a foundation for future comparative studies across countries with varying levels of human development.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Consumer behavior in social commerce: a scoping review of the scientific literature]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-09-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Systematic Review</category>
        <author>Kevin Andrés Alvarado-Gaibor</author><author>Eduardo Javier Espinoza-Solís</author><author>Miltón Fabián Peñaherrera-Larenas</author><author>Washington Guevara-Piedra</author><author>Sofía Lovato-Torres</author><author>Dennis Alfredo Peralta-Gamboa</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Social commerce has emerged as a central paradigm within electronic commerce by seamlessly integrating transactional capabilities with social interaction, user-generated content, and platform-driven influence mechanisms. This scoping review systematically maps the body of research on consumer behavior in social commerce. Unlike previous reviews constrained by narrower temporal scopes or specific theoretical lenses, the present study synthesizes bibliometric, geographical, methodological, theoretical, and thematic evidence drawn from a comprehensive corpus of 472 studies published between 2010 and 2026. The findings indicate sustained growth in the literature, particularly since 2019, characterized by a strong predominance of quantitative cross-sectional designs and structural equation modeling (SEM). Core constructs such as trust, perceived value, purchase intention, and social influence continue to dominate the field. Nevertheless, emerging research streams increasingly examine phenomena including herd behavior, fear of missing out (FoMO), social proof, influencer-consumer relationships, live commerce, and short-video environments. The review also highlights a pronounced asymmetry in global knowledge production, with substantial contributions from Asia, North America, and Europe, contrasted by comparatively limited representation from Latin America and Africa. By updating and integrating previously fragmented strands of the literature, this review provides an evidence-based mapping of the field's evolution—from early technology-adoption and generalized trust models toward more psychologically nuanced and platform-sensitive explanations of consumer decision-making. Furthermore, it identifies key priorities for future scholarship, including greater theoretical integration, methodological diversification, longitudinal and comparative designs, and expanded research in underrepresented regions.]]></description>
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