Technologies as Social Worlds
They shape and are shaped by how we live, what we value, and what kinds of futures we imagine.
My research examines… While blockchain in finance promises “trustless” money, my research shows how these systems are shaped by culture and social relations.
Below are my areas of specialisation.
Financial Technologies
What keeps people coming back to specific financial platforms, but not others?
My research focuses on how digital economies hold together, not just through incentives or technology, but through social ties, identity, and boundary-making in peer-to-peer systems.
Gamification & Finance
What makes money fun?
Profit and pleasure have long been intertwined in finance—from early markets to crypto trading today. Rather than asking how investing can be made more “fun”, I use gamification as an analytic lens to study motivation. What does gamified engagement tell us about our relationship to money and the world?
Knowledge-Making
Who gets to produce legitimate knowledge?
Cryptocurrencies, and the communities around them, are often dismissed as an unserious digital phenomenon. I study the relationship between critique and knowledge-production. How do the questions we ask produce different kinds of knowledges?