Designing new money: Creative transactions on Twitch

There is a wealth of contemporary scholarship pointing to ways in which money and payment media are being rapidly reconfigured through data technology platforms, towards what Swartz terms ‘New Money’. In this article, we look at these developments the lens design research ask: how might approach new money? And can complement extend critical sociological work on technologies, monetization cultural economies? To respond questions, analyse series ‘creative transactions’ that take place live-streaming platform Twitch. Twitch offers rich example payments as they interweaved with social media. Employing Kow et al.’s (2017) framework for ‘transactional attributes’ explore various forms exchange have been designed adopted perform relational across community’. Through case study, identify novel qualities patterns ‘new money’, propose means opportunities designers engage critically technologies.