Information & Media
type: channel
description: Founded in 1994 and dedicated to analysing the issues in the information and knowledge society, knowledge management, organisational communication management, culture studies, media and new media, international and intercultural communication, and science research. Indexed in the Scopus (Q3) database since 2018.
publisher: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press
language: en
publication name: Information & Media
issn: 2783-6207
copyright: Please read the Copyright Notice in Journal Policy.
items: A Descent-Ascent Principle Based Heuristic Algorithm: Empirical Results and Relevance in Information Management
items: The Role of Data Analytic to Enhance Design Thinking Process in Producing Social Media Contents
items: Political Participation in the Context of Platformization: A Technological Affordances Perspective
items: The Role of Telegram Channels in the News Media Ecosystem: Between Freedom and Moderation
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: Why does the Media Disregard Internal Fact-Checking? The Fact-Checking Logic Determination in the Case of Ukrainian Media
items: Representations of Gender and Power on the “Time” Magazine Covers
items: Predictors of Internet Use among Older Adults in Lithuania
items: Visual Communication of Climate Change in Online Lithuanian Media
items: Convenience Beats Trust: The Reality of Cryptocurrency Consumer Choices

A Descent-Ascent Principle Based Heuristic Algorithm: Empirical Results and Relevance in Information Management
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description: Rationale. Solving combinatorial optimization problems by means of heuristic optimization algorithms is a highly important area of computational intelligence as well as artificial intelligence. Methodology. This paper presents empirical (computational) results obtained through experiments with a descent-ascent (D-A) principle-based heuristic optimization algorithm, primarily designed for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The descent-ascent algorithm—referred to briefly in this way—has its origins in the local search paradigm. A distinctive feature is that the minimization of the objective function of an optimization problem (i.e., descent) is combined with certain perturbations of solutions (i.e., ascents) to avoid a greedy/deterministic search behavior and, at the same time, premature convergence to suboptimal local optima. Results. The experiments conducted with this algorithm and the results obtained demonstrate a relatively high level of algorithmic efficiency in solving the well-known combinatorial problem—the quadratic assignment problem. Practical relevance of the research. The problem is well relevant in such areas as the the green economy, next-generation industry, digital transformation, renewable energy, sustainable logistics systems, and other socio-technical and information management contexts.
subject: Articles
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subject: combinatorial optimization
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subject: heuristic optimization algorithms
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subject: local search
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subject: descent-ascent principle based search
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subject: quadratic assignment problem
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subject: information management
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creator: Alfonsas Misevičius
creator: Gintaras Palubeckis
creator: Dovilė Verenė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alfonsas Misevičius | Gintaras Palubeckis | Dovilė Verenė https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-22
publication date: 2025-10-22
starting page: 70
ending page: 84
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.101.5

The Role of Data Analytic to Enhance Design Thinking Process in Producing Social Media Contents
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description: <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Introduction.<strong class="boldas" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1">This research explains how the integration of roles and optimization of data analytics within the design thinking process can develop social media accounts organically. <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; te…
subject: Articles
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subject: data analytics
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subject: design thinking
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subject: social media
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subject: big data
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subject: machine learning
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creator: Bonnie Soeherman
creator: Calvin Leonardo Soeherman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bonnie Soeherman | Calvin Leonardo Soeherman https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-08
publication date: 2025-09-08
starting page: 112
ending page: 128
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.102.6

Political Participation in the Context of Platformization: A Technological Affordances Perspective
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description: <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Introduction.<strong class="boldas" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Social media has become a key space where political participation is shaped and mediated in contemporary societies. Although widely researched over the past decade, practices in the evolving digital sphere still require deeper understanding. The paper explores how technological affordances – visibility, persistence, editability, and association (Treem & Leonardi, 2013) – not only enable but also constrain civic engagement.<strong class="boldas" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-liga…
subject: Articles
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subject: political participation on social media
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subject: technological affordances
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subject: platformization
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creator: Lina Auškalnienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lina Auškalnienė https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-18
publication date: 2025-10-18
starting page: 129
ending page: 141
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.102.7

The Role of Telegram Channels in the News Media Ecosystem: Between Freedom and Moderation
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description: <em class="italic" lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Telegram<span lang="en-US" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">, an unmoderated digital platform, presents challenges to both democracy and authoritarian systems. The platform attracts activists, journalists, and citizens seeking anonymity to protect themselves from government surveillance or to avoid social media with stricter moderation rules. The aim of this article is to examine Telegram channels and their role in the modern media ecosystem through the normative media roles – monitoring, facilitative, collaborative, and radical – thus drawing attention to the opportunities and threats to democracy that this platform creates. The article summarizes research in an attempt to reveal the multifaceted functionality of Telegram channels. The study reveals that Telegram can successfully perform the function of a watchdog in a monitoring role, create a safe environment for discussion, while empowering unheard and marginalized voices in society, collaborate with government institutions, ensure public safety or promote resistance to the hegemony of power, thereby creati…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: unmoderated platform
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subject: digital platform
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subject: Telegram
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subject: media roles
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creator: Darius Remeika
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Darius Remeika https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-11
publication date: 2025-09-11
starting page: 53
ending page: 69
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.101.4

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
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subject: -
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creator: Saulius Keturakis
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 7

Why does the Media Disregard Internal Fact-Checking? The Fact-Checking Logic Determination in the Case of Ukrainian Media
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In this article, fact-checking logic is introduced as part of general media logic. This system is responsible for news editors’ decisions on whether to believe a fact or check it before publishing the news. Through the qualitative research applying semi-structured interviews with seven news editors of the leading Ukrainian online media, we have revealed that their fact-checking logic is built on the efforts for reconciliation between accuracy and other factors like speed, social media algorithms, audience metrics, virality, and the management style of editors-in-chief. We have discovered that publishing news without 100% confidence is common. The participants justified the absence of fact-checking with the publishing pressure, bad mood, the author’s or boss’s assurance, and many other excuses. They confess that news publications often appear to be inaccurate or even fake. We discuss incentives, drivers, and decision-making processes for fact-checking in the Ukrainian media and observe that mostly the inaccurate information published by the Ukrainian media can be attributed to cases when news editors were not completely confident in their decision to publish some fact, but not to the situations when they wrongly have 100% confidence. We suggest a way to solve this problem through the public declaration of fact-checking media logic principles.
subject: Articles
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subject: media logic
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subject: fact-checking logic
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subject: fact-checking
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subject: media management
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subject: media quality
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creator: Artem Zakharchenko
creator: Anna Nagorna
creator: Oleksandr Chekmyshev
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Artem Zakharchenko | Anna Nagorna | Oleksandr Chekmyshev https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-07
publication date: 2025-07-07
starting page: 47
ending page: 67
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.102.3

Representations of Gender and Power on the “Time” Magazine Covers
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Gender representations in the media and their relationship with signs of power remain a relevant topic in academic discourse. Power representations in the media play a significant role in shaping and reinforcing social norms, values, and attitudes, making the covers of prominent international magazines effective ideological tools. The study aimed to semantically analyze visual and textual signs of power on the covers of the <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Time<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1"> magazine with the objective to reveal their connections with gender representations. Issues of the magazine from 2002, 2012, and 2022 were s…
subject: Articles
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subject: “Time” magazine
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subject: covers
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subject: symbolic power
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subject: gender representations
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creator: Aistė Vitkūnė-Bajorinienė
creator: Skirmantė Šarkauskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aistė Vitkūnė-Bajorinienė | Skirmantė Šarkauskienė https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
starting page: 8
ending page: 24
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.101.1

Predictors of Internet Use among Older Adults in Lithuania
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description: <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Introduction.<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1"> The internet is essential to daily life by virtue of bridging age gaps and enhancing communication, information access, and social participation. Research has linked it to various positive outcomes, such as better psychological well-being. However, internet use among older adults in Lithuania is still below the European average. Therefore, this research examined various predictors of internet use among older Lithuanian adults. <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Methods<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-st…
subject: Articles
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subject: internet use
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subject: personality traits
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subject: older adults
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subject: ageing
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creator: Raimonda Sadauskaitė
creator: Antanas Kairys
creator: Ieva Jurevičiūtė
creator: Olga Zamalijeva
creator: Diana Kalnina
creator: Olga Rajevska
creator: Ieva Reine
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Raimonda Sadauskaitė | Antanas Kairys | Ieva Jurevičiūtė | Olga Zamalijeva | Diana Kalnina | Olga Rajevska | Ieva Reine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-24
publication date: 2025-07-24
starting page: 68
ending page: 83
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.102.4

Visual Communication of Climate Change in Online Lithuanian Media
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Climate change has multiple long-term and diverse effects but is usually not experienced directly. Therefore, the role of the media is particularly important to understand climate change. It is possible to communicate not only with text, but also with images, which can provide an additional dimension of perception to the analyzed phenomenon. Visualization can help the audience understand complex phenomena, especially related to the topic of climate change. This article presents an analysis of visual communication of climate change in online Lithuanian media. The analysis uses the database of online media collected during the project “Public Perceptions of Climate Change: Lithuanian Case in a European Comparative Perspective”. Based on the selected criteria, 78 illustrations from 49 articles in which climate change is the main topic were included in the analysis. The selected visualizations were analyzed thematically; as also, the concreteness and abstractness level, based on the construal level theory, was explored. The results of the study reveal the general trends in visual climate change communication in popular Lithuanian online media, the recurring themes, and the orientation towards the depiction of the effects of climate change rather than solutions. This study can be considered an initial step towards a deeper understanding of visual communication of climate change.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: climate change
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subject: visual communication
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subject: online media
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creator: Rūta Pelikšienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rūta Pelikšienė https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-11
publication date: 2025-06-11
starting page: 25
ending page: 41
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.101.2

Convenience Beats Trust: The Reality of Cryptocurrency Consumer Choices
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description: <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Background:<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1"> Despite the financial technology (Fintech) industry being marked as a strategic development direction in many countries, cryptocurrency products show low adoption rates. <em class="italic" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Purpose: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: n…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: crypto-currency
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subject: crypto wallet
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subject: crypto exchange
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subject: consumer trust
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subject: consumer preferences
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subject: consumer knowledge
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creator: Vladislav Fomin
creator: Ugnius Kerulis
creator: Rihards Grāmatiņš
creator: Tan Gürpinar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vladislav Fomin | Ugnius Kerulis | Rihards Grāmatiņš | Tan Gürpinar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-19
publication date: 2025-06-19
starting page: 21
ending page: 46
doi: 10.15388/Im.2025.102.2