WeChat gaming, learning, and midlife empty nest / Dongdong Yang, Kenneth Lachlan, Ye Chen -- Social media portrayal of housewives and gender issues in Chinese society : a perspective of digital feminism framework / Ming Xie and Chin-Chung Chao -- Facebook-based mental health discourse in...

For three decades the government of South Africa has sought to make telecommunications universally available and affordable. In its last days, the National Party government persuaded with the African National Congress (ANC) there should be licences for two competing international groups to build...

Changes in habits of consumers from offline to online, researchers' attention to mobile banking literature have grown in the previous decade. The article conducted a bibliometric analysis of the existing literature on mobile banking adoption. The dimensions database was used to gather the data...

This study examines the impact of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on the performance of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the presence of overlapping generations of wireless mobile technologies (2G and 3G). MVNOs distribute MNOs’ mobile services to customers without owning any...

Retailers are implementing technology-enabled mobile checkout processes in their stores to improve service quality, decrease labor costs and gain operational efficiency. These new checkout processes have increased customer convenience primarily by providing them autonomy in sales transactions in...

Manuscript type: Research Paper. Research Aims: The Freemium business model is becoming increasingly prominent in the current digital economy. In the mobile game market, total revenue from free to download apps is overtaking those from paid apps. The purpose of this article is to propose a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing widespread food insecurity and a sharp decline in living standards1. In response to this crisis, governments and humanitarian organizations worldwide have mobilized targeted social assistance programs2....