Let's Light this Candle”? Early Online Investment and the Regulation of Freedom in “New” Work Forms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josh Heuman (Texas A&M University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-170 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420.2012.676191 |
| OpenAlex | W2094820427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Drawing on Foucauldian governmentality studies, this article follows the contested construction of the early online investor. First, it explores the contingency of the investor's imagined freedom, as an expression of neoliberal and informationalist prescriptions of personhood. But it also explores the complexity and multiplicity with which that freedom was structured—especially in countervailing “intermediate-level” regulation, oriented as much toward protecting a vulnerable client as toward liberating an information-savvy sovereign consumer. In complicating the investor's freedom, and in clarifying its limits, struggles over online investment offer an instructive model for evaluating the ambivalence of self-entrepreneurial work
Ambivalence · Contingency · Epistemology · Freedom of expression · Governmentality · Human rights · Law and economics · Personhood · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |