Global traders form communities of time by observing a shared screen object

Evidence

Although Schutz’s concepts were conceived for bodily copresent participants, he turned the spotlight from the subject as actor and to the subject as observer of a mediating object; he also emphasized the temporal immediacy and coordination of observation. These ideas are the ones from which we can gain analytic leverage in the dissection of global fields. The global markets studied are arguably communities of time, with their identities based on interlocking time dimensions and the observation of a common object (i.e., the on-screen market). — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 60

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A market’s trading screen functions as a shared witnessable situation across continents. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 21; Trading screens transform distant markets into interactionally present scenes. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 27; Global markets form communities of time bound by a common observed screen object. (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Global markets form communities of time bound by a common observed screen object. #corroborates (0.97)
• Shared temporal structuring of a common object distinguishes global markets from ordinary electronic groups #expands (0.93) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 141
• Screen content assembles a globally shared object traders can watch together #expands (0.92) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 72
• Trading screens function as observatories permitting remote participation in market constitution #expands (0.85) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 85
• Screen-based reciprocal observation can generate intersubjectivity across geographic distance in markets. #expands (0.85) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 60
• Speculative technologies generate a distinct collective temporal experience analogous to Andersonian imagined community #expands (0.82)
• Screen-based trading recreated rather than abolished trader sociality and mutual anticipation. #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 427
• Screen signals give absent traders a mediated presence that colleagues observe, read, and retransmit #expands (0.80)
• Screen-mediated markets relax the need to directly observe traders watching #qualifies (0.78) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 75