THE MANY SIDES OF A COIN: EXPLORING THE COST AND VALUE OF TOKENS IN CHATURBATE
Author(s) -
Antonia Hernández
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aoir selected papers of internet research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-3317
DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11234
Subject(s) - security token , payment , value (mathematics) , currency , contrast (vision) , unit of account , unit (ring theory) , business , internet privacy , computer security , computer science , economics , world wide web , monetary economics , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics education , machine learning
Overview As a social technology, money is one with many incarnations: a unit of account and a store of value, a commodity, an abstract measure of labor-power, an extractive tool, an equalizer that produces inequality. Money, however, is never just money, and not even made. O C . , the same time the name of a unit of its made( ) (something issued by an authority that can be exchanged later on). A token stands in for something else. But what else, exactly? As this paper shows, Chaturbate tokens have different uses and meanings for the audience and performers. These differences do not
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