New Money : How Payment Became Social Media

Yale University Press

New MoneyHow Payment Became Social Media\nAuthor(s): Lana Swartz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300233223, 978-0300233223\nSynopsis\nA new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisibleoften exclusivecommunities \""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 ofThe 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 systemscash, card, app, or Bitcoinare 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 whats at stake when we pay.