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Author Lee, Micky, author.

Title Bubbles and machines : gender, information and financial crises / Micky Lee.

Publication Info. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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Series Critical, digital and social media studies
CDSMS (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction : bubbles and machines -- Tulipomania : unchanging gender relations in financial capitalism -- The indebted women : microcredit and the credit card -- Information reporting in the earliest Wall Street -- The screen, financial information and market locale -- Conclusion.
Note PDF (JSTOR, viewed June 17, 2019).
Summary 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.
Subject Financial crises.
Women -- Finance, Personal.
Finance -- Technological innovations.
Femmes -- Finances personnelles.
Finances -- Innovations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Finance -- Technological innovations
Financial crises
Women -- Finance, Personal
Other Form: 1912656000
ISBN 9781912656011 (electronic bk.)
1912656019 (electronic bk.)
9781912656028 (ePUB ebook)
1912656027 (ePUB ebook)
9781912656035 (mobi)
1912656035 (mobi)
9781912656004 (paperback)
1912656000 (paperback)
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AU@ 000069441345

 
    
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