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Lana Swartz, ’09, presents “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”

August 3, 2020

The MIT Alumni Association hosted a Faculty Forum Online with alum Lana Swartz, now an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.

Hosted by the MIT Alumni Association:

This MIT Faculty Forum Online webcast from July 15, 2020, spotlights Lana Swartz SM ’09, who earned her master’s from the MIT Department of Comparative Media Studies. In this interactive forum, she discusses her book, her other research interests, and takes questions from alumni participants.

Panelist:
Lana Swartz SM ’09, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, published in 2020 by Yale University Press

Moderator:
Ehsan Masood KF ’18

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