Lana Swartz, "New Money: How Payment Became Social Media"
b'Lana Swartz, \\u201909, is joined by Aswin Punathambekar, \\u201903, to discuss Swartz\\u2019s new book New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale University Press). New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition, and interrogates the consequences of those changes.\\n\\nLana Swartz is an Assistant Professor in Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and a 2009 graduate of MIT\\u2019s Comparative Media Studies master\\u2019s program. Prior to New Money, she published Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT Press). Aswin Punathambekar is Swartz\\u2019s colleague at UVa\\u2019s Department of Media Studies, where he is an Associate Professor. He graduated from the Comparative Media Studies program in 2003 and is co-author of the upcoming (provisionally-titled) The Digital Popular: Media, Culture, and Politics in Networked India.\\n\\nVideo and transcript also available: https://cms.mit.edu/video-lana-swartz-new-money-how-payment-became-social-media/'