November 26, 2020· 47 min

How Money Became A Form Of Social Media

Orality
Model
86%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,650 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,043 words)
M:29%
GuestLana Swartz(5,542 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic24%
obviously, absolutely, very
Engagement74%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, so
Repetition100%
like (182x), know (142x), money (111x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And, of course, it's one of ou..., And, today, we have, I think w...
Sound Patterns62%
54 question(s), 1 exclamation(s), alliteration: "markets move"
Formulaic Phrases7%
you know what, i mean, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
may, could, probably
Passive Voice13%
was when, is called, are interested
Abstract Nouns15%
investment, community, business
Subordination8%
because, however, while
Sentence Length50%
Avg: 17.6 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers3%
according to
Impersonal Style26%
655 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style94%
apply, slightly, inherently

Description

There are many similarities between cryptocurrencies and social networks. And the rise of payment apps like Venmo make the link between payments and social media explicit. But this convergence between money and social media goes back a long time. On this episode, we speak with Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, about her book, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.