High-frequency trading: Networks of wealth and the concentration of power

Social Semiotics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 278-299

  Golumbia, David ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automation; capitalism; computerization; democratization; digital media; finance; high frequency trading; new media; securities trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878124229     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2013.777595     Document Type: Article

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