April 2025, Keynote panelist, SCAM, MoMA R&D Salon series, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
April 2025, Invited participant, Shady Subjects: Everyday Contestation in Automated Systems, Cornell University.
March 2025, Invited participant, Theorizing the Conjecture Conference, University of California San Diego.
March 2025, Keynote speaker, Technology and Society: An interdisciplinary conference on AI and Finance Washington University in St Louis.
March 2025, Walter Fisher Lecture, Anneberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
February 2025, Invited visitor, Edinburg Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh.
January 2025, Invited interviewee, Applied Anthropology Network Apply Club Finance, virtual.
January 2025, Invited presenter with Alice Marwick, AI and Scams, Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC), Data + Society.
August 2024, Invited presenter, Money as Social Media, Venmo, Virtual.
June 2024, Keynote speaker, Workshop on the Politics of Money and Money-like Things, Cambridge University.
June 2024, Invited panelist, The past, present, and future of technology policy, Kluge Center, Karsh Institute, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
May 2024, Invited participant, Workshop: Degradation, Microsoft Research, Cambridge MA.
November 2023, Keynote speaker, CryptoCarnival Launch Party with Glen Weyl, Virtual.
June 2023, Invited presenter, Crypto: Artistic, Legal, Financial Issues, Zurich Art Weekend, University of Zurich.
June 2023, Invited speaker, Re:Publica, Berlin.
June 2023, Keynote speaker, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Market Studies, University of Edinburgh
April 2023, Invited workshop participant, Political Ideologies of Silicon Valley, CASBS, Stanford.
March 2023, Invited presenter, "The Work of Scams," LaborTechNet, Online
January 2023, Research Release: CBDC: Expanding Financial Inclusion or Deepening the Divide? MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Online.
August 2024. Interviewed and quoted, Lora Kelly, “The Last Social Network,” The Atlantic
March 2024. Interviewed and quoted, Joe Pinkster, “Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines-- How candy and soda machines became an unlikely trending investment idea of the 2020s,” Wall Street Journal.
February 2024. Interviewed and quoted, Erika Page, “Crypto was started to address a collapse of trust. Can it be trusted?” Christian Science Monitor.
Juen 2023. Book selected, “The Greatest Tech Books of all Time.” The Verge.
June 2023. Research referenced, Kenny Schachter, “Kenny Schachter Needed New Art Like a Hole in the Head at Art Basel, But Dug Up Plenty of Priceless Intel Instead,” ArtNet.
December 2022, article by Molly Fischer, "Yam Karkai's Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?" The New Yorker.
November 2022, article by Leo Schwartz, "How a dodgy crypto influencer got rich on YouTube and Twitter-- while the platforms and the SEC failed to act." Fortune.
July 2022 Article by Hannah Zeavin, "The Victim Cloud: Gullibility in the Golden Age of Scams," Harpers.
May 2022, article by Ed Miller, Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, and Caroline Kettlewell,"The Future, Ready or Not: From tiny sensors to massive data, UVA visionaries ponder the coming technology and all that comes with it," Virginia Magazine.
February 2022, interivew with Guy Mackinnon-Little, "In conversation with Lana Swartz" TANK, February
February 2022, article by Sean Russell, "OnlyFans and the porn ban. What really happened?" The Independent.
January 2022, article by Anna Wiener, "Money in the Metaverse: In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird" New Yorker.