LEADER 02368 am 22004333u 450 001 9910326655303321 005 20221206094515.0 010 $a1-912656-01-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000008420802 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120593 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008420802 100 $a20200610d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurc|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBubbles and machines $egender, information and financial crises /$fMicky Lee 210 1$aLondon :$cUniversity of Westminster Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (157 pages) $c1 chart; digital file(s) 225 1 $aCritical digital and social media studies 311 08$aPrint version: 1912656000 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aAre financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital?s gendered aspect ? even ? the ideology of a ?crisis?. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ?screens?, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological. 410 0$aCDSMS (Series) 606 $aWomen$xFinance, Personal 606 $aFinance$xTechnological innovations 606 $aFinancial crises 615 0$aWomen$xFinance, Personal. 615 0$aFinance$xTechnological innovations. 615 0$aFinancial crises. 676 $a332.024042 700 $aLee$b Micky$0944914 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910326655303321 996 $aBubbles and machines$92133268 997 $aUNINA