02368 am 22004333u 450 991032665530332120221206094515.01-912656-01-9(CKB)4100000008420802(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120593(EXLCZ)99410000000842080220200610d2019 uy 0engurc|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBubbles and machines gender, information and financial crises /Micky LeeLondon :University of Westminster Press,2019.1 online resource (157 pages) 1 chart; digital file(s)Critical digital and social media studiesPrint version: 1912656000 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.CDSMS (Series)WomenFinance, PersonalFinanceTechnological innovationsFinancial crisesWomenFinance, Personal.FinanceTechnological innovations.Financial crises.332.024042Lee Micky944914WaSeSSWaSeSSBOOK9910326655303321Bubbles and machines2133268UNINA