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.
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