New money : how payment became social media /

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities 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 inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swartz, Lana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Money.
Payment.
Digital currency.
Electronic funds transfers.
Payment > Social aspects.
Paiement.
Monnaie électronique.
Transferts électroniques de fonds.
Paiement > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The communication of money: how money became social media
  • Transactional pasts: a very short history of money as communication
  • Transactional identities: paying with new money
  • Transactional politics: getting paid and not getting paid
  • Transactional memories: social payments and data economies
  • Transactional publics: loyalty and digital money
  • Transactional futures: living with new money.

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