[Commlist] New Book: Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information and Financial Crises

BUBBLES AND MACHINES : Gender, Information and Financial Crises

Micky Lee


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 
recognised as technological.


CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Bubbles and Machines

2. Tulipomania: Unchanging Gender Relations in Financial Capitalism

3.The Indebted Women: Microcredit and the Credit card

4. Financial Information Reporting in the Earliest Wall Street

5.The Screen, Financial information and Market Locale

6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography and Television


AUTHOR


MICKY LEE is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Suffolk 
University, Boston. She is author of Alphabet: The Becoming of Google 
(2019) and the co-author of Understanding the Business of Global Media 
in the Digital Age (2018).


Published open access by the University of Westminster Press

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book34

Published 23 May 2019


This book is published in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies 
Series

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies


FORMAT

154 pages 229 x 152mm


OPEN ACCESS

Pdf, Epub and kindle versions available Free From 
uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site books: PDF 978-1-912656-01-1; ePub 
978-1-912656-02-8 Kindle 978-1-912656-03-5: DOI:10.16997/book34


PAPERBACK

978-1-912656-00-4    £18.99

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