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        <title>Frontiers in Human Dynamics | New and Recent Articles</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-04-04T14:15:08.03+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Legal regulation of digital currencies]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-04-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Eman Al-Wreikat</author><author>Yasar Al-Hiniti</author><author>Salah Awaisheh</author><author>Hiba Kobarie</author><author>Wesam Al-Hobabseh</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionDigital currencies have emerged as a significant financial innovation, raising complex legal, economic, and regulatory challenges across jurisdictions. While some countries have established comprehensive regulatory frameworks, others, including Jordan, continue to face legal uncertainty due to the absence of clear legislation. This study examines the legal status and regulatory approaches to digital currencies, with particular reference to the German and United Arab Emirates (UAE) models, and evaluates their applicability within the Jordanian legal context.MethodsThe study adopts a descriptive-analytical and comparative legal methodology. It analyzes legislative texts, institutional reports, and academic literature to assess how different jurisdictions regulate digital currencies. The research focuses on legal classification, regulatory oversight, licensing mechanisms, and compliance requirements, and compares these approaches to identify suitable regulatory solutions for Jordan.ResultsThe findings reveal significant variation in regulatory approaches worldwide. Some jurisdictions recognize digital currencies as financial instruments subject to licensing and regulatory supervision, while others impose restrictions or maintain unclear legal positions. In Jordan, the absence of a comprehensive legal framework has resulted in regulatory gaps, legal uncertainty, and limited investor protection. By contrast, the German model provides legal certainty through classification and licensing, while the UAE model offers effective institutional supervision and regulatory oversight.DiscussionThe study concludes that digital currencies can be legally integrated into national financial systems when supported by a clear and balanced regulatory framework. Based on the comparative analysis, the research proposes the adoption of a hybrid regulatory model in Jordan, combining legal classification, licensing requirements, and institutional supervision. Such a framework would enhance legal certainty, strengthen investor protection, reduce financial risks, and support sustainable financial and economic development while maintaining regulatory control.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Conservation dialogues]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-04-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Mara J. Goldman</author><author>Robin Roth</author><author>Libby Lunstrum</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Associations between social media usage, daily routines, and academic performance among undergraduate Rwandan students: a cross-sectional study]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Gihozo Olivier Mushimiyimana</author><author>Delphine Uwihirwe</author><author>Felicien Habingabire</author><author>Joseph Nshimiyimana</author><author>Potien Uwihoreye</author><author>Pierre Damien Turikumana</author><author>Lizahn. G. Cloete</author><author>Emmanuel Biracyaza</author>
        <description><![CDATA[BackgroundGlobally, technological progression has changed social media usage into daily occupations which influence how people engage, communicate, and learn. Among university students, these platforms enhance collective learning and access to information; but underuse or overuse may damage academic engagement, occupational balance, and daily functioning. Despite the growing importance and use of these social media in Rwanda, research on its impact remains scarce. Therefore, we assessed the associations between social media use, daily routines, and academic performance among undergraduate students.MethodA cross-sectional study was conducted among 219 undergraduate students from the University of Rwanda. Descriptive statistics summarize demographic characteristics and social medial use patterns. Analytical analyses comprised multinomial, logistic, and multiple linear regression models to determine predictors of daily routines and academic outcomes. Odds ratio (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals and statistically significant at p < 0.05 were used.ResultsAlmost all participants (n = 192, 87.7%) engaged in social media platforms for academic purposes, and 93.6% viewed platforms as important to their collaboration with peers and professionals. However, nearly half (47.5%) experienced academic distraction, and 56.7% spent more time on non-academic content. Engaging in social media accounts for 33,6% of variance in increasing academic engagement. However, addicted students to social media had higher likelihoods to experience routine disruption (OR = 1.45, 95%CI: 1.10–1.90, p = 0.01) than non-addicted peers. Participants engaged in more than three social media platforms reported more disruptions (OR = 1.60, 95%CI: 1.05–2.45, p = 0.03) than those engaging in three or less platforms. The third-year students were almost twice as likely as first-year students to experience those disruptions (OR = 1.75, 95% CI: 1.20–2.55, p = 0.003).ConclusionSocial media platforms are important sources for learning, yet they also cause routine disruptions. These results notify that future scholars are recommended to explore causal relationships between social media use and daily routines disruptions through longitudinal designs.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Generative artificial intelligence and epistemic (in)justice: perspectives from higher education students in the Global North and South]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-27T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Yusuf Damilola Olaniyan</author><author>Mercy Onyemaechi Martins</author><author>Rahab Harib Al Maqrashi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[In this research, we explore how students from the Global North and Global South understand the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in shaping access to knowledge and epistemic (in)justice in higher education. We draw on theoretical logic of epistemic justice and postcolonial framework to explicate how GAI mediates knowledge hierarchies across diverse epistemological contexts. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 university students, five from the Global North and five from the Global South, to understand their everyday engagements with GAI. We found that students from the Global South often rely on GAI out of necessity to navigate infrastructural and institutional constraints, which limit their epistemic agency to choose whether to engage with such technologies. While GAI enables access to paywalled research and institutional resources, participants expressed concerns about the reliability, authority, and contextual grounding of GAI-generated knowledge. In contrast, students from Global North described GAI as a convenient but non-essential tool and were more critical of its epistemic limitations. Overall, our findings visibilised GAI’s dual role as both a knowledge democratizing resource and a tool with the potential to become a digital colonizer. We therefore recommend improvement beyond prompting or more training data to a new standard of epistemic accountability, where GAI systems are designed to disclose their limits, qualify their claims, and resist the temptation to perform authority where none exists.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Informal settlements in Valparaíso (Chile): mobilized knowledge of communities and political position of municipalities]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Brief Research Report</category>
        <author>Rodrigo Torreblanca Contreras</author><author>César Cáceres-Seguel</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The housing deficit in Chile has led to an explosive growth of informal settlements. Although investment in housing subsidies has been a priority in public policy, informal settlements continue to grow, reflecting a multidimensional and dynamic problem. Using a qualitative approach that combines focus groups and interviews with residents of settlements in the Metropolitan Area of Valparaíso and municipal officials, the study analyzes the knowledge and strategies mobilized by communities, as well as the municipalities’ perspectives on this process. Organized actions are observed for land subdivision, street layout, housing construction, infrastructure network connections, and public spaces. Additionally, mechanisms for conflict resolution and negotiation strategies with public and private actors are discussed. These knowledge and practices in the construction and management of habitat enable valuable community-public institutional articulations, which are key to advancing a new policy for settlement and community management. This self-management of habitat challenges the State’s structure in ways that demonstrate participatory, mobilizing, and democratic management. Urban informality is not a homogeneous process but different assemblages between institutions and communities generating agreements, processes, and differentiated and dynamic spaces.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Traditional knowledge and rural livelihoods and practices for nature conservation and environmental sustainability]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-24T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Dickson Adom</author><author>Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Financing transformation: from green hospitals to climate-resilient health systems]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-23T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Opinion</category>
        <author>Jehan Al Fannah</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Metaverse-driven cultural communication: a case study of digital heritage experiences in Sharjah]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Thouraya Snoussi</author><author>Alaa Makki Abdulhadi Akkof</author><author>Majdi Faleh</author><author>Makram Mestiri</author><author>Arnaud Huftier</author><author>Mourad Abed</author><author>Islam Habis Mohammad Hatamleh</author>
        <description><![CDATA[General contextThe growing humanization of immersive digital platforms, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and metaverse experiences, is changing the process of communicating, accessing, and experiencing cultural heritage globally. The technologies will provide new opportunities in the area of improving the interaction with the population, heritage education, and cultural preservation without being restricted by the physical locations.LimitationsAlthough these interest levels are on the rise globally, there is still very little empirical evidence regarding perceptions of the populace, user acceptance and contextual issues in the Arab world. Namely, the gap is in the regionally-based research that investigates the experience of digital and metaverse-based heritage platforms by various publics in culturally particular contexts, including the United Arab Emirates.MethodTo fill this gap, the present study is based on a mixed-method case study on the subject of digital heritage experiences in Sharjah. To measure accessibility, pattern of engagement, perceived benefits and limitations, quantitative data were gathered by surveying 317 respondents using snowball and purposive sampling. The qualitative data were obtained in the form of a focus group comprising eight students and educators, which allowed exploring the issue of experiential use, motivations, and barriers in depth. This is analysed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Constructivist Learning Theory.ResultsThe results show that the attitude towards the metaverse-based cultural communication is rather positive but sceptical. The participants appreciated the opportunity of immersive learning, increased accessibility, and the possibility of preservation, and voiced concerns connected to authenticity, the inclusivity of languages, digital inequality, cost, and data privacy. The involvement was moderate and intermittent and younger and better educated users showed more acceptance and confidence in digital heritage technologies.ImplicationsThese findings indicate that the effective implementation of the metaverse technologies within the cultural communication process requires not only the technical innovation but also the culturally oriented design, non-exclusive approach to access, and favouring institutional and policy environments. By making Sharjah a regional example, the research provides empirical data to the global digital heritage discussion and provides a hands-on advice on how to build human-focused, culturally authentic and socially inclusive virtual heritage spaces.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Human–AI Interaction in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: psychological, ethical, and design perspectives]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Isaac Osei</author><author>Anil Carie</author><author>Lakshmi Prasanna Kanithi</author><author>Dennis Opoku Boadu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Human activity is increasingly extending into environments marked by isolation, confinement, and extreme conditions, including long-duration space missions, polar research stations, intensive care units, and other high-risk settings. In these contexts, individuals must sustain performance and wellbeing under persistent cognitive, emotional, and social strain. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are now deeply embedded in such environments, supporting decision making, monitoring, training, and, in some cases, psychological wellbeing. Yet research on AI in extreme settings has largely emphasized technical performance and automation, with comparatively limited attention to the lived experience of sustained Human–AI Interaction (HAI). This perspective paper argues that isolated, confined, or extreme (ICE) environments represent a uniquely revealing context for examining HAI. The psychological pressures characteristic of ICE settings—such as prolonged isolation, cognitive fatigue, stress, and high consequences of error—fundamentally shape how humans perceive, trust, and rely on AI systems. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature from human factors, psychology, and AI research, the paper conceptualizes ICE environments as a stress test for HAI, where issues of trust calibration, autonomy, transparency, and social attribution are amplified. Rather than treating AI solely as a decision aid, this perspective highlights how AI systems in ICE contexts may function as cognitive partners, social surrogates, or perceived teammates. The paper concludes by outlining key implications for the design, evaluation, and governance of AI systems intended for extreme environments, emphasizing the need for interaction-centered approaches that prioritize human experience alongside technical performance.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How gaming motivation is associated with entrepreneurial passion: a sequential mediation model of entrepreneurial curiosity and self-efficacy]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Ardita Malaj</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurial passion is a vital emotional catalyst for chance exploration, perseverance, and venture establishment; nevertheless, its development prior to entrepreneurial involvement is not well comprehended. Simultaneously, digital gaming has emerged as a widespread pursuit among young, especially in Saudi Arabia, where elevated game engagement aligns with national initiatives to foster entrepreneurship under Vision 2030. Notwithstanding this convergence, current research has predominantly neglected to examine the extent to which non-business digital behaviors influence the development of entrepreneurial enthusiasm. This study aims to bridge this gap by developing and empirically testing a sequential cognitive model that connects gaming motivation to entrepreneurial passion via entrepreneurial curiosity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The model incorporates concepts from Self-Determination Theory, Information-Gap Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, and identity-based passion theory. Employing covariance-based structural equation modeling on survey data from 435 young adults in Saudi Arabia, the results indicate that gaming motivation positively predicts entrepreneurial curiosity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, whereas entrepreneurial curiosity significantly boosts self-efficacy. Curiosity and self-efficacy significantly enhance entrepreneurial passion. Conversely, gaming motivation does not exert a substantial direct influence on entrepreneurial enthusiasm, suggesting that passion does not stem solely from digital interaction but rather arises from curiosity-driven inquiry and faith in one’s capabilities. This study enhances entrepreneurship research by recognizing gaming motivation as a non-business precursor to entrepreneurial passion, identifying entrepreneurial curiosity as a crucial cognitive mechanism in the formation of passion, and situating these processes within a youth-driven entrepreneurial transformation. The results establish digital gaming as a scalable psychological asset for the development of entrepreneurial human capital in digitally intensive economies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond legality: a holistic perspective on Indonesia’s illegal fintech epidemic]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-10T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Erwin Asmadi</author><author>Rizal Khadafi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This perspective article argues that the rampant spread and resilience of illegal online lending (pinjaman online or pinjol) in Indonesia is not merely a legal violation to be policed, but a symptom of a broader, deep-seated systemic failure. While government crackdowns, including the shutdown of thousands of illicit platforms and mass arrests, are necessary immediate interventions, these measures largely treat the symptoms rather than the underlying disease. We posit that the endurance of illegal fintech stems from a complex, self-reinforcing crucible of socio-economic desperation, a critical deficit in functional financial literacy, a digital culture that aggressively encourages consumption over savings, and a technological agility on the supply side that consistently outpaces regulatory frameworks. By analyzing scholarly literature and media reports, we demonstrate that this phenomenon parallels other intractable societal issues in Indonesia, such as the consumption of lethal bootleg alcohol (oplosan) and the persistent flow of undocumented migrant workers. In all these cases, high-risk illegal choices are made not out of criminal intent, but out of perceived necessity due to structural exclusion. We contend that a sustainable solution demands a radical paradigm shift: moving from a strictly punitive “whack-a-mole” approach to a holistic strategy focused on prevention and inclusion. This requires a coordinated national effort to revolutionize financial literacy education, compel the design of inclusive financial products for the informal sector, foster responsible financial habits through community leadership, and implement adaptive, technology-driven regulation. Only by addressing the root causes of both supply and demand can Indonesia hope to dismantle the illegal fintech ecosystem and build a resilient, ethical, and truly inclusive digital finance landscape.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[AI smart glasses, ambient computing, and the public sphere: a mini review of media governance challenges]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-10T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Mini Review</category>
        <author>Samira Setoutah</author><author>Elsir Ali Saad Mohamed</author><author>Khalid Ibrahim Abdelaziz Ishag</author><author>Widad Haroon Ahamed Mohamed</author><author>Khalid Osman Mahmoud Mohamed</author>
        <description><![CDATA[AI-powered smart glasses are increasingly positioned as central interfaces within the paradigm of ambient computing, signaling a transition from smartphone-centric interaction toward continuous, context-aware mediation embedded in everyday environments. Drawing on peer-reviewed research published between 2022 and 2025, alongside selected regulatory, market, and technical sources, this article examines how AI smart glasses reconfigure visibility, datafication, and communicative power in public and semi-public spaces. Grounded in critical media theory—including remediation, the attention economy, surveillance capitalism, data colonialism, and critical algorithm studies—the review conceptualizes smart glasses as ambient media infrastructures rather than neutral consumer devices. The analysis demonstrates that these technologies intensify long-standing media governance challenges by relocating mediation from screens to first-person perceptual layers, raising urgent questions about privacy, consent, algorithmic bias, data sovereignty, and democratic participation. By situating AI smart glasses within debates on platform power and the public sphere, the article argues for proactive, participatory, and infrastructure-level governance frameworks capable of addressing the societal implications of ambient AI-mediated perception.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Training as corridor governance: TVET alignment, skills recognition, and status continuity in the Myanmar–Malaysia labour migration system]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Tse Hou Hew</author><author>Nina Xie</author>
        <description><![CDATA[South–South labour migration is increasingly central to development trajectories, yet corridor governance often operates under fragmented mandates and uneven implementation capacity. In such corridors, mandatory pre-departure training is delivered late, generically, and with weak assessment—limiting its ability to shape recruitment choices, reduce intermediation dependence, or support safe navigation after arrival. Anchored in the Myanmar–Malaysia corridor, this conceptual analysis argues that training governance is amongst the most implementable cross-level levers for improving regularity and rights-protecting mobility in capacity- and coordination-constrained South–South systems, because it can be redesigned through standards, timing, delivery architecture, and recognition/portability arrangements without waiting for slower reforms in enforcement or permit regimes. Using on a structured desk review, corridor process mapping, and governance gap analysis, the paper reframes training as migration-governance infrastructure that can function as (i) a capability intervention (actionable navigation, contract comprehension, safe help-seeking), (ii) a labour-market signal shaped by technical and vocational education and training (TVET) alignment and human capital planning, and (iii) a gatekeeping node when access, assessment, and accountability are weak. We develop three testable propositions linking training design to corridor outcomes: (1) earlier, decentralised access reduces information asymmetry and reliance on brokers; (2) TVET alignment and portable skills recognition enable training to translate into labour-market value and mobility options; and (3) rights-based effectiveness requires measurable capability outcomes and follow-through institutional supports beyond information transfer. Here, “skills recognition” refers primarily to functional, employer-usable verification and portability of assessed competencies (e.g., micro-credentials), rather than formal mutual recognition. Generative AI is treated as bounded inclusion infrastructure for multilingual, low-bandwidth learning support—useful for reducing language and resource distance but governed through content validation, transparency, data minimisation, and human accountability to prevent digital gatekeeping. AI is not proposed for eligibility screening, risk scoring, or automated decision-making; its role is limited to multilingual learning support under auditable safeguards. The paper concludes with a sequenced policy toolkit for specifying “who does what” across corridor actors and an empirical agenda for testing the propositions in South–South mobility settings. To clarify what recognition/portability can mean without assuming legal unification, the paper draws on EU qualification-translation, QA, and transparency instruments as a transferable tool-layer.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Migration, identity, citizenship and conflict in the globalized world]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Valery Buinwi Ferim</author><author>Kgothatso Shai</author><author>Michael Fonkem</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[FinTech-enabled digital transformation for sustainable performance: the strategic role of dynamic capabilities]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Muhammad Tanveer</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The role of technological innovation as a key part of corporate strategy has become increasingly prominent in the literature. There is a lack of empirical research examining the role of FinTech adoption in firms’ sustainable performance through internal transformation processes and strategic capabilities. The present study is based on the Resource-Based View (RBV) and the Dynamic Capabilities framework (DC); it suggests a theoretical model that evaluates the mediating role of Digital Transformation (DT) and the moderating role of the Dynamic Capabilities (DC) on the association between FinTech Adoption (FTA), and Firm Sustainable Performance (FSP). Primary data were collected on a sample of 277 companies based in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and then apply to Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to establish the test hypothesized relationships. Findings demonstrate that there is a strong positive relationship between FinTech adoption and digital transformation, and that the concluding has a downstream constructive influence on the sustainable performance regarding economic, social, and environmental aspects. Furthermore, DC become an important positive moderator, which intensifies the influence of DT on sustainable performance; companies with strong adaptive and reconfiguring capabilities obtain better sustainability results of their DT activities. Combining the concept of FTA and DC into the unified strategy of sustainability, this work contributes to the theoretical discourse and can be applied in practice by organizations who want to use digital technologies in an attempt to achieve sustainable development in contemporary markets.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Labour and health of undocumented migrant women: condition, trends and critical issues]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-04T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Francesca Cimino</author><author>Rafaela Pascoal</author><author>Fabio Perocco</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quantifying the digital cultural divide: how platform algorithms shape rural–urban identity politics in China]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-03T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Chen Yuehua</author><author>Gao Jiayao</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of the in-depth advancement of Digital China and the rural revitalization strategy, short video platform algorithms, as a novel cultural intermediary force, are intricately linked to the reconstruction of the political ecology of urban-rural cultural identity. Existing research on digital technology and rural development predominantly focuses on macro policy and micro individual behavior levels, lacking systematic empirical investigation into how platform algorithms, as a structural force, shape urban-rural cultural identity. This study employed a nationwide stratified sampling survey, with urban and rural residents as the research subjects, and utilized regression analysis and structural equation modeling to systematically examine the differential association mechanisms of algorithm recommendation systems on the cultural identity of urban and rural residents, as well as the moderating roles of social structural factors such as household registration and education level. The results revealed that algorithm exposure is significantly and positively correlated with users’ acceptance of rural modernity narratives, which is specifically reflected in the significant enhancement of fusion innovation identification. Urban-rural household registration, as a key social location variable, moderates the association path between algorithm exposure and reality identification: urban user groups exhibit a positive correlation between the two, whereas rural user groups show no such association. Active search behavior weakens the association with algorithm domestication, as users resist the infiltration of a single narrative through autonomous information acquisition. Notably, different short video platforms exhibit significant differences in their associations with cultural identity, and both the urbanization level of permanent residence and education level exert significant moderating effects on cultural identity and algorithm perception. Based on these findings, this study proposes the “Algorithm Domestication Gap” defining the digital cultural divide as a multi-dimensional cognitive gap within the framework of the third-generation digital divide. This concept extends the knowledge gap theory, providing a theoretical lens for understanding technology-mediated urban-rural cultural politics, and offers practical implications for digital rural construction and platform governance.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can digital financial inclusion promote counties’ industrial structure upgrading?]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Chen Jiao</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Industrial structure upgrading (ISU) is the core driver of China’s high-quality economic development and rural revitalization, yet county-level economies face severe structural imbalances, with digital financial inclusion (DFI) emerging as a critical support for industrial restructuring. Based on panel data of 1,772 counties in China, threshold regression models are adopted to empirically investigate the nonlinear impact of DFI on ISU. The results show that DFI has a significant double threshold effect on ISU, with its promotional effect rising from 2.08% to 3.40% and then falling to 2.82% across successive threshold stages; a 1% increase in DFI can drive a typical county with a GDP of RMB 30 billion to achieve an annual increase of RMB 13.92 million to 22.74 million in tertiary industry output via resource reallocation from manufacturing to high-value-added services. Among the three core sub-dimensions of DFI, digitization level is the foundational driver of its overall effect on ISU, and DFI optimizes county-level industrial structure through two channels of boosting manufacturing output and facilitating regional innovation. This study enriches county-level DFI-ISU literature and provides actionable policy insights for governments to leverage DFI for industrial upgrading through strengthened rural financial digitization, optimized resource allocation, and targeted policies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[AI-generated visual disinformation and digital equity: an intersectional analysis of algorithmic vulnerabilities among marginalised communities]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-02-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Mini Review</category>
        <author>Vinanda Cinta Cendekia Putri</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has fundamentally transformed the landscape of visual disinformation, creating novel challenges for digital equity and social justice. This mini review examines how AI-generated and AI-amplified visual content disproportionately impacts marginalised communities through intersecting vulnerabilities related to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, and digital literacy. Drawing on intersectional theory and social identity frameworks, we synthesise recent empirical evidence demonstrating that algorithmic systems systematically disadvantage specific demographic groups through biased content generation, inequitable distribution mechanisms, and differential access to verification tools. Our analysis reveals that communities of colour, low-income populations, and individuals in the Global South face compounded risks from AI-driven disinformation ecosystems. We identify critical gaps in current interventions and propose equity-centred approaches to address these disparities, including algorithmic accountability frameworks, culturally responsive media literacy programs, and inclusive platform design. This review contributes to emerging scholarship at the intersection of AI ethics, communication studies, and social equity by highlighting how technological systems reproduce and amplify existing societal inequalities.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital influencers as drivers of purchase intentions and promoters of conscious consumption]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-02-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Adriana Oliveira</author><author>Helena Costa Oliveira</author><author>João Paulo Martins</author><author>Mariana Areal</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe advent of digital technology has brought a new dynamic to the world of marketing, allowing for greater interaction between consumers and brands and increasing the dissemination of content through social media. In this context, digital influencers have become important mediators between companies and audiences, building trust and influencing their purchasing decisions. However, there is a growing trend towards promoting more conscious and sustainable consumption practices. This study aimed to analyse the role of digital influencers in the purchase intention and adoption of more conscious consumption practices by followers.MethodsThe quantitative and descriptive research was conducted based on an online questionnaire and data were processed using R software.ResultsThe results indicate that, although digital influencers continue to be associated with the promotion of consumerism, there is a growing appreciation for the dissemination of content on sustainability.DiscussionThis study reinforces the dual role of digital influencers as drivers of purchase intention and promoters of conscious consumption, an increasingly relevant distinction in a digital environment where commercial influence coexists with growing demands for ethical and sustainable behaviour. It also contributes to an integrated conceptual model that advances the understanding of how credibility, content characteristics, and sustainability messaging shape consumer behaviour.]]></description>
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