Micky Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micky Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micky |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Suffolk University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist
Dis/ability in Media Law and History
Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia
Alphabet
Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation, now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media player. The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows the company is expanding to other industries from equity investment …
Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age
This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing on three main approaches – media economics, critical political economy, and production studies – the authors provide an empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic alliances…
Wong Kar-wai
On Becoming an Exchange
Financial technology and information are more than economic stimuli and commodities, and hence political economists ought to look beyond their discipline to understand the multi-faceted nature of information and technology. Using a case study of trading technologies of Nasdaq stocks prior to the dot-com boom, this paper argues that Michel Callon's writings lend insight to political economists. Three key terms of Callon (Actor-Network Theory; fram…
How to Study Women, Gender, and the financial Markets
How much do communication scholars know about women, gender, and the financial markets?Very little. Out of the forty-nine articles published in the special issues on the 2008 financial crisis in fi
Information and Finance Capital
This article examines the political economy of information in relation to finance capital from the vantage points of commodity, spatiality, and temporality by using Reuters as an illustrative case. The use and exchange values of financial information are examined in productive capital; and the fixed value of financial information as capital goods in finance capital is assessed. The value of financial information is argued to be both time and spac…
Mediating Women Workers in Fair Trade and Sweatfree Production
In the past two decades, there has been a surge of campaigns that promote fair and ethical local and global trade. These campaigns encompass fair trade, non-sweatshop production, organic farming, a
A Feminist Political Economic Critique of Women and Investment in the Popular Media
From a feminist political economic perspective, this paper examines the relationship between gender and investment in the popular media in three interrelating ways. First, a discourse analysis was used to examine eight popular books on investment for women published in the US. The popular financial literature asks women to solve the problems that they encounter in a patriarchal household by participating in the financial market. Second, Suze Orma…
Time and the Political Economy of Financial Television
This article calls attention to the importance of time as a vantage point from which the intersection between finance, media, and information can be critiqued. The neoliberal temporality is constituted by both abstract time and historical time of the media. The sense of abstract time constructed by financial television is critiqued: the paradox of low production cost of television programs and high commercial value of advertisement spots illustra…
A feminist political economic critique of the human development approach to new information and communication technologies
This article argues that although the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has broadened the scope of international development by including the human and social dimensions, the human development approach does not acknowledge the unbalanced power relations between global corporations and national governments of developing countries, between the global north and the global south and between the two genders. By analyzing the UNDP’s human dev…
A Feminist Political Economy of Communication
In the spring of 2004, after I defended my doctoral dissertation, I decided to read as much literature on women, gender, and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as I could. My dis
Google ads and the blindspot debate
This article renews Dallas Smythe’s ‘blindspot’ argument by examining the economy of Google advertising. I argue that Google sells at least three types of commodities: keywords, statistics of keywords, and search results. Through a vertically integrated system, Google sells to advertisers commodities that have no exchange value outside the Google ads system. Moreover, Google creates an ideology that the world’s information is at the users’ finger…
A Political Economic Critique of Google Maps and Google Earth
Using a political economic approach to communication, this paper critiques the Google company by examining Google Maps and Google Earth. Academic, media and daily lives discourses tend to ask three questions about Google. First, what other services does Google provide in addition to a search engine? Second, is Google an unconventional company? Third, does Google provide free information? By examining the development of Google Maps and Google Eart…
Constructed Global Space, Constructed Citizenship
This article examines the relation between global space and citizenship by examining the cases of WTO meeting and Hong Kong Disneyland. Scholars assert that global space can unsettle naturalised social relations. Yet, an ambiguous and vague sense of citizenship and a neoliberal spatiotemporal frame constrain how the state, the media, and the locals interpret the meanings of space, and how citizenship is manifested in space. In the global space of…
Localizing a global amusement park
We examine how the Disney Company localizes Disneyland in Hong Kong. Unlike most transnational corporations that adapt local culture to accommodate local tastes in foreign markets, we argue that Hong Kong Disneyland adapts to the Chinese market by retaining and bringing to the fore Disneyland's global form. Evidence gathered from multiple visits to the park shows that local residents and visitors from Asia understand how global consumption works.…
A feminist political economic understanding of the relations between state, market and civil society from Beijing to Tunis
By focusing on the area of women/gender, telecommunications and new ICTs, this article examines the complex interplay between the state, the market and civil society from the Fourth UN World Conference on Women to the World Summit on Information Society. By adopting a feminist political economic perspective, it is asserted that the mainstream approach to civil society falls short of acknowledging unbalanced power relations between the three parti…
On the Relationship Between International Telecommunications Development and Global Women's poverty
The article discusses the relationship between international telecommunications development and global women's poverty by examining three questions: (1) Who benefits economically from international telecommunications development? (2) Why is women's poverty a peripheral concern in neoclassical economics? (3) How and by whom should women's poverty be defined? By focusing on the World Bank's policies, programs and lending to telecommunications, and …
What's Missing In Feminist Research In New Information And Communication Technologies
As implied by the question asked in the title, this paper examines a missing component in the body of feminist research in telecommunications and new information and communication technologies—that
Unesco’s Conceptualization of Women and Telecommunications 1970-2000
This article examines UNESCO resolutions and programs on women in relation to telecommunications in the time period 1970-2000. It argues that in those three decades, UNESCO responded to the four UN world conferences on women by incorporating women into its programs of information and communication. The organization’s conceptualized relations between women and telecommunications are critiqued as simple and naive. Women are alloted only three roles…
Google ads and the blindspot debate
This article renews Dallas Smythe’s ‘blindspot’ argument by examining the economy of Google advertising. I argue that Google sells at least three types of commodities: keywords, statistics of keywords, and search results. Through a vertically integrated system, Google sells to advertisers commodities that have no exchange value outside the Google ads system. Moreover, Google creates an ideology that the world’s information is at the users’ finger…
What's Missing In Feminist Research In New Information And Communication Technologies
As implied by the question asked in the title, this paper examines a missing component in the body of feminist research in telecommunications and new information and communication technologies—that
A Feminist Political Economic Critique of Women and Investment in the Popular Media
From a feminist political economic perspective, this paper examines the relationship between gender and investment in the popular media in three interrelating ways. First, a discourse analysis was used to examine eight popular books on investment for women published in the US. The popular financial literature asks women to solve the problems that they encounter in a patriarchal household by participating in the financial market. Second, Suze Orma…
A Feminist Political Economy of Communication
In the spring of 2004, after I defended my doctoral dissertation, I decided to read as much literature on women, gender, and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as I could. My dis
Localizing a global amusement park
We examine how the Disney Company localizes Disneyland in Hong Kong. Unlike most transnational corporations that adapt local culture to accommodate local tastes in foreign markets, we argue that Hong Kong Disneyland adapts to the Chinese market by retaining and bringing to the fore Disneyland's global form. Evidence gathered from multiple visits to the park shows that local residents and visitors from Asia understand how global consumption works.…
Unesco’s Conceptualization of Women and Telecommunications 1970-2000
This article examines UNESCO resolutions and programs on women in relation to telecommunications in the time period 1970-2000. It argues that in those three decades, UNESCO responded to the four UN world conferences on women by incorporating women into its programs of information and communication. The organization’s conceptualized relations between women and telecommunications are critiqued as simple and naive. Women are alloted only three roles…
How to Study Women, Gender, and the financial Markets
How much do communication scholars know about women, gender, and the financial markets?Very little. Out of the forty-nine articles published in the special issues on the 2008 financial crisis in fi
Mediating Women Workers in Fair Trade and Sweatfree Production
In the past two decades, there has been a surge of campaigns that promote fair and ethical local and global trade. These campaigns encompass fair trade, non-sweatshop production, organic farming, a
A feminist political economic understanding of the relations between state, market and civil society from Beijing to Tunis
By focusing on the area of women/gender, telecommunications and new ICTs, this article examines the complex interplay between the state, the market and civil society from the Fourth UN World Conference on Women to the World Summit on Information Society. By adopting a feminist political economic perspective, it is asserted that the mainstream approach to civil society falls short of acknowledging unbalanced power relations between the three parti…
Unesco’s Conceptualization of Women and Telecommunications 1970-2000
This article examines UNESCO resolutions and programs on women in relation to telecommunications in the time period 1970-2000. It argues that in those three decades, UNESCO responded to the four UN world conferences on women by incorporating women into its programs of information and communication. The organization’s conceptualized relations between women and telecommunications are critiqued as simple and naive. Women are alloted only three roles…
What's Missing In Feminist Research In New Information And Communication Technologies
As implied by the question asked in the title, this paper examines a missing component in the body of feminist research in telecommunications and new information and communication technologies—that
On the Relationship Between International Telecommunications Development and Global Women's poverty
The article discusses the relationship between international telecommunications development and global women's poverty by examining three questions: (1) Who benefits economically from international telecommunications development? (2) Why is women's poverty a peripheral concern in neoclassical economics? (3) How and by whom should women's poverty be defined? By focusing on the World Bank's policies, programs and lending to telecommunications, and …
A feminist political economic understanding of the relations between state, market and civil society from Beijing to Tunis
By focusing on the area of women/gender, telecommunications and new ICTs, this article examines the complex interplay between the state, the market and civil society from the Fourth UN World Conference on Women to the World Summit on Information Society. By adopting a feminist political economic perspective, it is asserted that the mainstream approach to civil society falls short of acknowledging unbalanced power relations between the three parti…
Constructed Global Space, Constructed Citizenship
This article examines the relation between global space and citizenship by examining the cases of WTO meeting and Hong Kong Disneyland. Scholars assert that global space can unsettle naturalised social relations. Yet, an ambiguous and vague sense of citizenship and a neoliberal spatiotemporal frame constrain how the state, the media, and the locals interpret the meanings of space, and how citizenship is manifested in space. In the global space of…
Localizing a global amusement park
We examine how the Disney Company localizes Disneyland in Hong Kong. Unlike most transnational corporations that adapt local culture to accommodate local tastes in foreign markets, we argue that Hong Kong Disneyland adapts to the Chinese market by retaining and bringing to the fore Disneyland's global form. Evidence gathered from multiple visits to the park shows that local residents and visitors from Asia understand how global consumption works.…
A Political Economic Critique of Google Maps and Google Earth
Using a political economic approach to communication, this paper critiques the Google company by examining Google Maps and Google Earth. Academic, media and daily lives discourses tend to ask three questions about Google. First, what other services does Google provide in addition to a search engine? Second, is Google an unconventional company? Third, does Google provide free information? By examining the development of Google Maps and Google Eart…
A feminist political economic critique of the human development approach to new information and communication technologies
This article argues that although the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has broadened the scope of international development by including the human and social dimensions, the human development approach does not acknowledge the unbalanced power relations between global corporations and national governments of developing countries, between the global north and the global south and between the two genders. By analyzing the UNDP’s human dev…
A Feminist Political Economy of Communication
In the spring of 2004, after I defended my doctoral dissertation, I decided to read as much literature on women, gender, and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as I could. My dis
Google ads and the blindspot debate
This article renews Dallas Smythe’s ‘blindspot’ argument by examining the economy of Google advertising. I argue that Google sells at least three types of commodities: keywords, statistics of keywords, and search results. Through a vertically integrated system, Google sells to advertisers commodities that have no exchange value outside the Google ads system. Moreover, Google creates an ideology that the world’s information is at the users’ finger…
Mediating Women Workers in Fair Trade and Sweatfree Production
In the past two decades, there has been a surge of campaigns that promote fair and ethical local and global trade. These campaigns encompass fair trade, non-sweatshop production, organic farming, a
A Feminist Political Economic Critique of Women and Investment in the Popular Media
From a feminist political economic perspective, this paper examines the relationship between gender and investment in the popular media in three interrelating ways. First, a discourse analysis was used to examine eight popular books on investment for women published in the US. The popular financial literature asks women to solve the problems that they encounter in a patriarchal household by participating in the financial market. Second, Suze Orma…
Time and the Political Economy of Financial Television
This article calls attention to the importance of time as a vantage point from which the intersection between finance, media, and information can be critiqued. The neoliberal temporality is constituted by both abstract time and historical time of the media. The sense of abstract time constructed by financial television is critiqued: the paradox of low production cost of television programs and high commercial value of advertisement spots illustra…
Information and Finance Capital
This article examines the political economy of information in relation to finance capital from the vantage points of commodity, spatiality, and temporality by using Reuters as an illustrative case. The use and exchange values of financial information are examined in productive capital; and the fixed value of financial information as capital goods in finance capital is assessed. The value of financial information is argued to be both time and spac…
On Becoming an Exchange
Financial technology and information are more than economic stimuli and commodities, and hence political economists ought to look beyond their discipline to understand the multi-faceted nature of information and technology. Using a case study of trading technologies of Nasdaq stocks prior to the dot-com boom, this paper argues that Michel Callon's writings lend insight to political economists. Three key terms of Callon (Actor-Network Theory; fram…
How to Study Women, Gender, and the financial Markets
How much do communication scholars know about women, gender, and the financial markets?Very little. Out of the forty-nine articles published in the special issues on the 2008 financial crisis in fi
Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age
This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing on three main approaches – media economics, critical political economy, and production studies – the authors provide an empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic alliances…
Wong Kar-wai
Alphabet
Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation, now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media player. The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows the company is expanding to other industries from equity investment …
Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia
Dis/ability in Media Law and History
Bohyeong Kim, Critically Capitalist
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (5 works)