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Algorithmic Reflexivity: The Constitution of Socio-Technical Accountability in Financial Pricing

Algorithmische Reflexivität: Die Herstellung sozio-technischer Zurechenbarkeit in der Preisbildung auf Finanzmärkten
[journal article]

Langenohl, Andreas

Abstract

In ethnomethodology (EM), the concept of reflexivity refers to processes of the constitution of meaning through which actors collaboratively produce the interpretations they need in order to orient themselves in various situations. The paper discusses how EM’s constitutive theoretic notion of reflex... view more

In ethnomethodology (EM), the concept of reflexivity refers to processes of the constitution of meaning through which actors collaboratively produce the interpretations they need in order to orient themselves in various situations. The paper discusses how EM’s constitutive theoretic notion of reflexivity can be applied to non-human agency, referring to approaches in the social studies of finance (SSF) as they are informed by science and technology studies (STS), and in particular, how a reflexive notion of meaning and agency might be applied to financial agency that is largely object-driven, automated, algorithmic, and operates through quantifiers (that is, prices). Filling this gap, the paper outlines how meaning making in largely automated and algorithmic financial markets can be conceptualized in terms of EM’s notion of reflexivity. It thereby refers to recent conceptualization of algorithmic action as a social logic centering on the execution of prescriptions, connects this conceptualization to EM’s notion of accountability, and reconstructs algorithmic finance as a particular distribution of accountability and constitution of reflexivity, among human and non-human financial agencies.... view less

Keywords
ethnomethodology; reflexivity; algorithm; sociotechnical system; financial market

Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology

Free Keywords
accountability; pricing; social study of finance

Document language
English

Publication Year
2021

Page/Pages
p. 106-125

Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 2

Issue topic
Positionality Reloaded: Debating the Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship Between Science and Society

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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