Karin Knorr Cetina is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Chicago, and project leader of a comparative project on scopic media at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She has published extensively in the areas of science and technology studies and finance, and has received several major prizes. She edited The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance (with Alex Preda, 2012) and is currently working on the role of algorithms, media, and technology in global financial markets.