Digital money platforms and mobile payment apps
Communication and media studies perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.51385/qydb7466Keywords:
platformization, apps, digital money, media, paymentsAbstract
Post-pandemic scenarios have functioned as laboratories for digital money platforms and mobile payment apps.In both technologies money forms and functions demonstrate their historical constitution as information and communication media. Thus, this article addresses these topics considering disciplines of design, communication and media studies.
To accomplish this, the study recovers two theories that analyse the infrastructural conditions and the symbolic-cultural dynamics involved in mediation of microeconomic practices. Moreover, the paper summarizes the history of infrastructural platformisation and of the institutional constructs that promoted mobile money. Then, a key point is made about a payment app arising from Billetera Santa Fe Program.
The methodological approach is carried out by analyzing government, legislative and business documentation and by using digital methods of review surveys. Conflicts, frictions, problematic dimensions and disputes of money apps are expected in these platformisation processes.
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