Hillis / Petit / Epley Everyday eBay

Culture, Collecting, and Desire
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-48340-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site of cultural, racial, and sexual discourse and practice; as an emergent media form; and as a facilitator of global consumerism. From old toys steeped in nostalgia to 'rare' limited edition shoes, the contributors demonstrate that value on eBay is never simply about 'price'.

On any given day, more than two million items are listed for sale on eBay, from everyday objects to kitsch and collectibles to the truly bizarre. Since its debut ten years ago, eBay has quickly become a central destination for millions of web browsers. According to eBay itself, up to 165,000 Americans now make their living by selling through the website, and other business analysts project that hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide now make their living through eBay.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hillis, Ken

Petit, Michael

Epley, Nathan Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introducing Everyday eBay
Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Nathan Epley

1. My Obsession: I Thought I was Immune to the Net. Then I Got Bitten by eBay
William Gibson

2. Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture: Film Collectables and Fan Investments
Mary Desjardins

3. Virtual_radiophile (163 *): eBay and the Changing Collecting Practices of the U.K. Vintage Radio Community
Rebecca Ellis and Anna Haywood

4. Fortune Telling on eBay: Early African American Textual Artifacts and the Marketplace
Eric Gardner

5. Reading eBay: Hidden Stores, Subjective Stories, and a People's History of the Archive
Zoe Trodd

6. Immaterial Labor in the eBay Community: The Work of Consumption in the "Network Society"
Jon Lillie

7. The Perfect Community: Disciplining the eBay User
Kylie Jarrett

8. "Black Friday" and Feedback Bombing: An Examination of Trust and Online Community in eBay's Early History
Laura Robinson

9. Return of the Town Square: Reputational Gossip and Trust on eBay
Lyn M. Van Swol

10. Of PEZ and Perfect Price: Sniping, Collecting Cultures, and Democracy on eBay
Nathan Scott Epley

11. Auctioning the Authentic: eBay, Narrative Effect, and the Superfluity of Memory
Ken Hillis

12. Between the Archive and the Image-Repertoire: Amateur Commercial Still Life Photography on eBay
James Leo Cahill

13. "Virgin Mary In Grilled Cheese NOT A HOAX! LOOK & SEE!": Sublime Kitsch on eBay
Susanna Paasonen

14. eBay and the Traveling Museum: Elvis Richardson's Slide Show Land
Daniel Mudie Cunningham

15. The Contradictory Circulation of Fine Art and Antiques on eBay
Lisa Bloom

16. My Queer eBay: "Gay Interest" Photographs and the Visual Culture of Buying
Michele White

17. When Used is Better than New: Sex Panic, eBay, and the Moral Economy of Underwear
Michael Petit

18. Playing Dress-Up: eBay's Vintage Clothing-Land
Katalin Lovász

The Editors and Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ken Hillis is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Digital Sensations: Space, Identity and Embodiment in Virtual Reality.
Michael Petit is Mellon Lecturing Fellow at the University Writing Program in the Center for Teaching, Learning and Writing at Duke University. He is author of Peacekeepers at War: A Marine's Account of the Beirut Catastrophe.
Nathan Epley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a contributing editor for NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media and Culture.