{"id":32,"date":"2026-09-23T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:40:39","slug":"values","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/values\/","title":{"rendered":"Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3223431146279812;width:267px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-width:8px\">Transparency: ESG reporting makes corporate behavior visible and trustworthy, much as DH values open, documents methods and data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finance&#8217;s legitimacy depends on disclosure. Markets are supposed to price accurately because information about firms is public, audited, and comparable \u2014 this is the premise behind ESG reporting, securities regulation, and the entire apparatus of financial statements. Mu et al.&#8217;s study of digital finance and corporate ESG rests on that premise completely: the researchers measure ESG through standardized scores built from disclosed data. If disclosure were unreliable, the whole study would be measuring nothing.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-width:8px\">Inclusion: The article finds digital finance helps most for small firms, and it talks about the strategy speaking of developing better financial products &#8220;including for people currently unable to access financial services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital Humanities shares a version of this value. Open-access publishing, public-facing projects, and freely available digital archives all express the conviction that scholarship should not be gated behind institutional privilege. DH has spent decades arguing that digitization democratizes who can consult the record.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-width:8px\">Social responsibility: Finance&#8217;s claim to social responsibility runs through ESG, and specifically through the S \u2014 the social pillar covering labor practices, community relations, health and safety, product responsibility, and human rights.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DH&#8217;s version is more direct and more contested within its own field. The claim is that people should serve communities beyond the academy, making it easier to access things that used to be inaccessible, building projects that return materials to the communities they came from, and working with rather than on the people whose records are being studied.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency: ESG reporting makes corporate behavior visible and trustworthy, much as DH values open, documents methods and data. Finance&#8217;s legitimacy depends on disclosure. Markets are supposed to price accurately because information about firms is public, audited, and comparable \u2014 this is the premise behind ESG reporting, securities regulation, and the entire apparatus of financial statements. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RDFin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}