[Air-l] Anyone know of published, qualitative studies of trust on e-bay?

[Min Jiang]

Hi, 

Prof. Josh Boyd of my department has done some work on the subject. I don't 
know the specifics but goole will help :)

Min
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Min Jiang
Ph.D. student
Department of Communication
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47906
E-mail: mjiang at purdue.edu
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Quoting "Nafus, Dawn" <dnafus at essex.ac.uk>:

> Becky Ellis and Anna Haywood at the University of Essex are doing some
> excellent qualitative work on ebay as a consumption/performance of knowledges
> phenomenon, though not on trust specifically.  They are running this
> conference http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay/Programme.html  The
> names in the programme should give some guidance.
> 
> 
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> Subject: [Air-l] Anyone know of published,qualitative studies of trust on
> e-bay?
>  
> I know that there are large-scale, economic analysis of e-bay usage, as it's
> 
> a great example of an information-based market economy.
> But someone asked me if there were any user studies of e-bay, specifically 
> about issues of trust, rating credibility, etc.
> I said, if anyone knows about this stuff, it would be AoIR folks.
> See you at AoIR in Chicago!
> Thanks!
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