The social construction of technology posits technologies are shaped by social factors and influenced by interpretations of actors involved. Discourses by different actors around blockchain technologies also contribute to depicting the social imaginaries of blockchain, thereby its innovation and novel applications. Imaginaries draw on pre-reflexive...

Generally, a blockchain is a decentralized ledger to record transactions which are stored and updated across an many hard devices as possible. It's open and transparent, so that anyone can read and add any data to the blockchain. There are different types of blockchain architectures depending on the ends. Drawing on an empirical study of...

Internet, technologies, and a myriad application of both constitute a vital part of modern society. Without which, one cannot conceive the modernity of our epoch. The creation and innovation of the Internet is a human envision and adventure towards a new world, through which people's capacity of surmounting institutional goals, overcoming...

Children's perception of home and their views of love and care have been discussed in previous posts. Affective factors including the provision of love and care, spending time together, and mutual respect are relatively more valued by children. It could be argued that children in the aforementioned western contexts define family and their closeness...

Harms caused to online political discourse possess much greater power than prior ones thanks to internet and algorithms.

As digital platforms supplant increasingly more central venues of public life (Gillespie, 2017:24), the governance of platform demands more attention as well as actions from all stakeholders. However, platform governance is a complicated and thorny issue yet to be sorted out. This post aims to reflectively understand platform governance from a...

Twamley (2013) analysed the influence of globalisation from the perspective of marriage and intimacy, finding that globalisation has not homogenize intimacy relationship around the world. The western type of intimate relationship based on free choice of romantic love is yet to be acknowledged and practiced on every corner of the world. India is...

Come along with globalisation and modernization is human's demand for autonomy and freedom. India is seen as one of the major pinnacles of modernity in the Asia-Pacific region (Donner, H. & Santos, G., 2016:128), yet arranged marriage, a seemingly conservative tradition, still remains as a prevalent social practice in India. This is an...