Bubbles and Machines
Gender, Information and Financial Crises
Abstract
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.
Keywords
financial crisis; feminism; technology; science and technology studies; gender; financial informationDOI
10.16997/book34ISBN
9781912656004; 9781912656028; 9781912656035OCN
1117870449Publisher
University of Westminster PressPublisher website
https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
London, 2019Grantor
Series
Critical Digital and Social Media Studies, 11Classification
Cultural studies
Media studies
Feminism and feminist theory
Gender studies, gender groups
Economic and financial crises and disasters