New Money: How Payment Became Social Media by Swartz, Lana

New Money: How Payment Became Social Media

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities "In an...
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New Money: How Payment Became Social Media by Swartz, Lana

New Money: How Payment Became Social Media

$95.13

New Money: How Payment Became Social Media

$95.13
Author: Lana Swartz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities

"In an engaging and timely work, brimming with fascinating anecdotes and historical and literary references, Lana Swartz brilliantly illustrates how financial technologies are quietly transforming how we socialize and what it means to belong."--Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems--cash, card, app, or Bitcoin--are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay.

This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory--and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

Author: Lana Swartz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 08/18/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780300233223


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/04/2020

About the Author
Lana Swartz is assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. She is the coeditor of Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff.

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