Flawed Players in a Complex Game
Popular Audiovisual Explanations of Economics in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4298265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roei Davidson (0000-0002-2038-7455, Department of Communication, University of Haifa ([email protected]), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 203-225 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-10875129 |
| OpenAlex | W4385948596 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This article analyzes Money, Explained, a five-episode video series produced by the American explanatory journalism organization Vox and distributed globally by Netflix, as an exemplar of the recent proliferation of digital media content explaining economic issues to a general public. Such content reflects the increased prominence of news-about-relations in economic news coverage, a news form that aims to explain why current trends and events occur while also echoing early twentieth-century corporate pedagogic films and more recent personal finance journalism that instructs audiences on proper capitalist behavior. The Vox series considers several financial topics all centered on economic problems that individuals experience, involving get-rich-quick schemes, gambling, retirement saving, credit cards, and student loans. It focuses on individuals' psychological flaws as a cause for the problems they encounter and suggests that viewers can change their disposition and modify their individual behavior to surmount these problems. The series identifies some aspects of the economic system as unfair but does not consider the capacity of individuals to act collectively to restructure it
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Behavioral Economics
How Digitization Has Created a Golden Age of Music, Movies, Books, and Television
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |