Social Media + Payments, Mobile Style - Part II

 

Sicap’s research project with the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion has been looking at mobile social media and how it intersects with mobile payments. Our guest blogger Tom Boellstorff shares exciting insights which have been uncovered thus far, in an interim report.

First part of this post has been published during this summer.

This glimpse into the early findings from our research project “Landscaping Mobile Social Media and Mobile Payments in Indonesia” includes emerging insights into:

1. Entryways into electronic commerce
2. The dominance of Blackberry
3. Mobilizing locality
4. Buying and selling behaviors
5. Mobile commodities

Download the full Interim Report here, and check back for more as the research unfolds.

Tom Boellstorff is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. His research interests include contemporary Indonesian society (where he has conducted ethnographic research since 1992) and digital culture. His books, among others, include Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (2008), and with Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T.L. Taylor, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method (2012).