Bubbles and Machines

Gender, Information and Financial Crises

Micky Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2019
University of Westminster Press (Verlag)
9781912656004 (ISBN)

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Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological.

Micky Lee is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Suffolk University, Boston. She is the author of Alphabet: The Becoming of Google (2019) and the co-author of Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age (2018).

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Critical, Digital and Social Media
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781912656004 / 9781912656004
Zustand	Neuware