Spectacle of Expertise - Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media

Alex Preda provides an ethnographic exploration of how financial expertise is performed and produced in the media, analyzing its features and how audiences react to it. He examines how analysts, anchors, and producers collaborate in manufacturing financial talk that circulates around the world.

List of contents

Introduction
1. What Is Financial Expertise?
2. Talk, Spectacle, and Expertise
3. The Organization of Expert Talk
4. Strategic Facework: The Expert Presentation of Experts
5. Unfaultable Talk
6. Talk and Truth
7. Managing Audiences
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Hong Kong as a Global Financial Center
Appendix 2. Ethnographic Methods
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Alex Preda is professor of professions, markets, and technology at King’s Business School, King’s College London. He is the author of Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism (2009) and Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance (2017), as well as a coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance (2013).

Summary

Alex Preda provides an ethnographic exploration of how financial expertise is performed and produced in the media, analyzing its features and how audiences react to it. He examines how analysts, anchors, and producers collaborate in manufacturing financial talk that circulates around the world.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Preda, Preda Alex
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2023
• EAN: 9780231202473
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20247-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Finance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Finance and the finance industry