In its first decade, Bitcoin has not proven to be a practical money form for most
circumstances, but it has become a staging ground for debate around the cultural role of …

As an emerging financial service model, digital finance has gained tremendous popularity
among providers and users. This paper explores the development of digital finance literature …

Amid escalating claims about the promises and perils of emergent financial technologies
(fintech), critical investigation of the extent to which specific technological changes in global …

Drawing on interviews with 194 market participants (including 54 practitioners of high-
frequency trading or HFT), this article first identifies the main classes of “signals”(patterns of …

This article analyses how a pair of nineteenth century commodity exchanges—in Chicago
and New Orleans—shaped the sociotechnical infrastructures underlying two key types of …

As part of ongoing work to lay a foundation for social studies of high-frequency trading
(HFT), this paper introduces the culture (s) of HFT as a sociological problem relating to …

In the last decade, interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) surged
dramatically. This article contends that corporate perspectives on ESG—as managing risk …

Certain strands of contemporary media theory are concerned with the ways in which
computational environments exploit the 'missing half-second'of human perception and …

IPE has usefully identified numerous contributors to financial crises. Considerably less
attention however has been granted to the roles of financial infrastructures, considered in …

There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history,
anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular …