Money, God, and SMS

Rifat, Md. Rashidujjaman; Chen, Jay; Toyama, Kentaro

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025960

Cited by 29 publications

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“…For the Muslim population, research supports that many online practices are influenced by Islamic teachings and beliefs [1,2,5,9,10,35,35,49,55,59]. We assert that interpreting users' behavior from a holistic lens, i.e., including their religious motivations, leads to a deeper understanding of this user population and and goes hand-in-hand to explain online decisions and behaviors [20,28].…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Holy Tweets

Abokhodair

Elmadany

Magdy

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice and expression. In this paper, we explore social media spaces as they subtend new forms of religious experiences and rituals. We present a mixedmethod study to understand the practice of sharing Quran verses on Arabic Twitter in their cultural context by combining a quantitative analysis of the most shared Quran verses, the topics covered by these verses, and the modalities of sharing, with a qualitative study of users' goals. This analysis of a set of 2.6 million tweets containing Quran verses demonstrates that online religious expression in the form of sharing Quran verses both extends offline religious life and supports new forms of religious expression including goals such as doing good deeds, giving charity, holding memorials, and showing solidarity. By analysing the responses on a survey, we found that our Arab Muslim respondents conceptualize social media platforms as everlasting, at least beyond their lifetimes, where they consider them to be effective for certain religious practices, such as reciting Quran, supplication (dua), and ceaseless charity. Our quantitative analysis of the most shared verses of the Quran underlines this commitment to religious expression as an act of worship, highlighting topics such as the hereafter, God's mercy, and sharia law. We note that verses on topics such as jihad are shared much less often, contradicting some media representation of Muslim social media use and practice.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Abokhodair

Elmadany

Magdy

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Researchers may find it more suitable to address security and privacy problems by interweaving technological interventions in the sociocultural fabric of local communities rather than using them in silo. For example, user awareness and education may be targeted at communities than individuals, leveraging social influence prevalent in collectivist cultures [123].…”

Section: Trust and Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given that participatory design approaches are rooted in political and socioeconomic empowerment, these approaches would also help achieve design solutions that conform to cultural norms and local context while empowering users. Designing with users also enables researchers to leverage deeply-rooted social and religious values to engage and educate users about the underlying technology more effectively [123]. Making users aware of how the underlying technology works and the associated security and privacy issues helps build their trust and confidence in the technology.…”

Section: Leveraging Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Security and Privacy Research in Developing Regions

Vashistha

Anderson

Mare

2018

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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Prior research suggests that security and privacy needs of users in developing regions are different than those in developed regions. To better understand the underlying differentiating factors, we conducted a systematic review of Human-Computer Interaction for Development and Security & Privacy publications in 15 proceedings, such as CHI, SOUPS, ICTD, and DEV, from the past ten years. Through an in-depth analysis of 114 publications that discuss security and privacy needs of people in developing regions, we identified five key factors-culture, knowledge gaps, unintended technology use, context, and usability and cost considerations-that shape security and privacy preferences of people in developing regions. We discuss how these factors influence their security and privacy considerations using case studies on phone sharing and surveillance. We then present a set of design recommendations and research directions for addressing security and privacy needs of people in resource-constrained settings. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy;

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“…DFS have been analyzed both from a technical perspective [10,11] and from a social perspective [46]. Researchers have also explored how technology can support the usage of DFS through designing user interfaces that enable money transfer [32] and improve the learnability of money transfer smartphone applications [20].…”

Section: Digital Financial Services and Financial Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We also emphasize that technology adoption and use are more likely to succeed if researchers consider what is meaningful in the daily lives of their target users. In terms of culturally situated design, HCI researchers are beginning to consider how religious institutions influence people's technology use and adoption [47]. While religious institutions may offer one avenue for context-specific design, understanding how interpretations of religion affect the daily lives of people, including perceptions of gendered roles, may also lead to fruitful design recommendations.…”

Section: Gender and Culturally Situated Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Access, and Decision-Making

Ibtasam

Razaq

Anwar

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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In resource-constrained economies, lack of financial participation prohibits women's economic empowerment and opportunities to improve circumstances. With the advent of Digital Financial Services (DFS), a growing emphasis has been placed on the possible positive impact of DFS on lives of individuals. However, for people to understand, adopt, and use DFS, they require certain prerequisites and enablers. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach to analyze the gendered barriers in the readiness for and adoption of DFS as well as the impact of gendered roles in curtailing or enhancing the same. We present our analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews to evaluate the affordances or, lack thereof, in affordability of funds, authority of transactions, access to technological devices, and agency of social and cultural mobility-all of which are prerequisites to fully utilizing DFS. We discuss the sociocultural and religious context in Pakistan that underpins some of these gendered barriers and the perceived views of both men and women.

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Money, God, and SMS

Cited by 29 publications

References 49 publications

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