02348nam 2200385 450 991047679480332120230517104720.0(CKB)5470000000566598(NjHacI)995470000000566598(EXLCZ)99547000000056659820230517d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBubbles and Machines gender, information and financial crises /Micky LeeLondon :University of Westminster Press,2019.1 online resource (157 pages)CDSMS (Series)1-912656-03-5 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.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)Bubbles and Machines Financial crisesFinancial crises.338.542Lee Micky944914NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476794803321Bubbles and machines2133268UNINA