Bubbles and Machines

Gender, Information and Financial Crises

Micky Lee

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English

University of Westminster Press
23 May 2019

Cultural studies; Media studies; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies, gender groups; Financial crises & disasters

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 them because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital's gendered aspect and - 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.

By: Micky Lee
Imprint: University of Westminster Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781912656004
ISBN 10: 1912656000
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 23 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).