03482cam a2200505 i 4500 118171 118171 22034648 BJBSDDR 20230411090901.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 210513s2022 enk b 001 0 eng d 2021939063 GBC1H9608 bnb 020377899 Uk 9780745687025 (paperback) 0745687024 (paperback) (OCoLC)on1244534863 YDX eng YDX rda UKMGB OCLCF CDX OCLCO BUB BDX YDX FIE OCLCO UIU DLC eng lccopycat HB 171 M819c 2022 330.01/4 Moor, Liz 26486 Communication and economic life / Liz Moor. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2022. vi, 175 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index. Introduction Part I: Economic Action is Communicative Does Homo Economicus Talk? Communication in Economic Theory The Symbolism of Money, Payment and Price Part II: Communication Constructs Economic Life Promotion Information Narrative Discussion Conclusion When we talk about media and the economy, 'the economy' is usually understood as the macro economy or GDP, while 'the media' usually refers to television and print news, or the digital output of mainstream news providers. But communication about money and the economy in everyday life is far more wide-ranging than this. It is also changing: opportunities to discuss economic matters - whether public or personal - have proliferated online, while new payment systems and shopping platforms embed economic behaviour more deeply into communications infrastructures. Challenging earlier narrow definitions, this ambitious book offers a new framework for thinking about the role of communication in our economic lives. Foregrounding the broader category of communicative practices, the book understands economic life not only in terms of the macro economy, but more sociologically as a set of processes of providing for material wants and needs. How we talk about these wants and needs, and our means for meeting them, is how we come to understand our economic lives as meaningful. The book explores how our economic lives are constructed communicatively in a variety of modes that move through, but also exceed, mass media - from the symbolism of credit cards to the language used by economists, and from social media promotion to debates in online forums. Communication and Economic Life is a vital resource for students and scholars in media and communications and sociology, and for anyone interested in how we talk about economic lives. -- Provided by publisher. Economics. Economía 761 Communication. Comunicación 1966 Money. Dinero 396 Economía política 963 Electronic version: Moor, Liz. Communication and economic life. Newark : Polity Press, 2021 9780745687032 (OCoLC)1287199430 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2022-11-21 0 HB 171 M819c 2022 00000165697 2022-11-21 00:00:00 1 2022-11-21 BK