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Digital After Dark… Lets Talk About Money

Join us for a free interesting evening exploring how digital technology is shaping how we spend and save our money.

A person's hand presses a tablet screen and paper money flies above

What’s on offer?

Through a series of short talks and conversations learn how to avoid crypto scams, how social media is helping women improve their financial literacy and what your online bank’s T&Cs really say! Including an in conversation with Instagram money-saving influencer Thrifty Clair on how she uses apps and technology to save and manage money!


Grab a free drink on us and enjoy a relaxed evening thinking about how digital technology impacts our financial lives, and what it means for you! Including:

What’s it about?

In conversation with Thrifty Clair

Our special guest, Instagram money saving queen Thrifty Clair will be joining us for an in conversation with Dr Lisa Garwood-Cross about the ways digitial apps and technology can be used to save and manage money!

 

Digital Funny Money: Avoiding hackers, scammers, and Ponzi schemes

In this talk Dr Tom Redshaw will share insights and stories from his research into the cryptocurrencies, designed to help you understand and avoid the wide range of criminality and other social harms associated with the technology. As well as drawing on his own research, Tom will be sharing insights from a group of international scholars he has brought together for a book currently in the works, 'Crypto Crises'.

 

Financial growth and the 'gram: women, personal finance and Instagram
Learn about ongoing insights from a study of how women are taking control of their money through peer-support and sharing on Instragram. Drawing on interviews with female personal finance influencers and their audience members to uncover how women are teaching themselves how to save money and improve their financial literacy using social media.

 

Consent, Accept, Continue: What we agree to in digitial banking apps
Yuening Li from National University of Ireland, Maynooth explores the lengthy terms and conditions users often skip when signing up for digital banking apps. Drawing on her PhD research, Yuening Li discusses the findings from analysing eight popular banking apps in the UK and Ireland and the ambiguities in user information, consent and excessive use of personal data. Helping us consider how we navigate the increasingly complex technical language we encounter and what we might be agreeing to unintentionally.

Who’s leading the event?

Dr Lisa Garwood-Cross, Prof Ben Light, Dr Tom Redshaw from the University of Salford

Open to

Adults and young people over 16 unless accompanied by and adult

Of particular interest to

People interested in digital money, currency, and practical advice on spending and saving money based on the latest research

Event booking deadline

24 hours before the event starts