Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information and Financial Crises - Couverture souple

Lee, Micky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912656000 ISBN 13 : 9781912656004

Editeur : University of Westminster Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Westminster Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912656000
• ISBN 13: 9781912656004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
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• Personne responsable: non disponible