The Platformed Money Ecosystem: Digital Financial Platforms, Datafication, And Reimagining Financial Well-Being

ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Pia A. Albinsson PhD, Associate Professor (Creator)
Institution
Appalachian State University (ASU )
Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/

Abstract: Digital financial platforms have become an integral part of consumers' lives–resulting in the datafication of everyday life and potential for uniquely impacting financial well-being. Extending previous transformative consumer research, we suggest financial well-being must center the ways digital financial platforms and their resulting data are increasingly enmeshed with financial decision making and consumption. Drawing on a theoretical lens of platformization, we propose the Platformed Money Ecosystem, which accounts for increased embeddedness of digital financial platforms within consumers' lives and the subtlety of how everyday life is transformed into data: producing data at the micro-level, monetizing data at the meso-level, and regulating data at the macro-level. In conceptualizing the Platformed Money Ecosystem, we identify three data-informed considerations for scholars and policymakers to reimagine financial well-being: protecting consumer data, limiting data biases, and supporting data literacy.

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Publication
Ekpo AE, Drenten J, Albinsson PA, et al. The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well-being. JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS. June 2022. doi:10.1111/joca.12458. Publisher version of record available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joca.12458
Language: English
Date: 2022
Keywords
digital financial platforms, financial inclusion, financial well-being

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