How can the social studies of finance help us to understand financial markets?Erica CoslorDoctoral Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology

The Chaos of Finance

Andreas Gursky Chicago Board of Trade II (1999)

… To Our Current Financial Crisis

Traders and Emotion

Shaping Technologies

Stock Ticker

Bloomberg Terminal

Emptying of the Pits

Rise of the Screen

Life on Screens

Reuters Screen

FTSE Screen

Global Assemblages

Blaylock Direct Market Access System

Communities of Time

24 hour trading in financial markets

Important ModelsThe FICO™ Score

Implications

• Financial markets are complex socio-technical systems

• Technologies, market devices and assemblages matter

• We need to take a closer look inside the models…

• AND see how they relate to people, organizations, and machines