Short bio
Lana Swartz is associate professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-career Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she runs the Digital Cultures and Economies lab. She studies social and cultural aspects of money to understand the future of financial technology, livelihoods, financial literacy, and consumer protection in the digital economy. She is the author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale, 2020) and co-editor of Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT, 2017). She is currently writing a book about scams.
