[Air-l] Cultures of eBay conference, registration ends May 16th 2005

[Ellis, Rebecca M]

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Registration for the conference closes on May 16th 2005. 
  

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Cultures of eBay: making sense of social and economic aspects of the 
eBay 'phenomenon' 

August 24th-25th 2005, Colchester, University of Essex 

http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html 

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Who should attend 

*	Academics in the fields of (but not exclusively): new media, e-commerce, 
	cultural studies, sociology, human geography, HCI 
*	Practitioners in relevant fields 
*	Research students 
*	Industry consultants 


Conference background 

This is the first independent UK conference which aims to look at the 
cultural, social and economic aspects of eBay. The idea for this 
conference originated from an ongoing ESRC project (RES-000-23-0433) at Chimera, a department of the University of Essex, which began in February 2004 and is due to end in January 2006. Results of this research project will be disseminated at the conference.

The overall aim of this conference is to bring together academics, and 
practitioner groups from both business and the voluntary sector, to 
explore and 'make sense' of the cultural, social and economic aspects 
and implications of eBay, the Internet auction site. 
  


Keynote speakers: 
  
Rebecca Ellis and Anna Haywood, University of Essex, 'Virtually 
second-hand: results of a two year ESRC funded project on eBay' 
http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/beckye.html 
http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/annah.html 
  
Will Davies, Institute of Public Policy Research 'Implications of eBay 
for the policy community' 
http://www.ippr.org.uk/aboutippr/staff/?id=65 <http://www.ippr.org.uk/aboutippr/staff/?id=65> 
  
Tim Dant, University of East Anglia 'The immateriality of Internet 
shopping' 
http://www.uea.ac.uk/psi/people/dant_t.htm 
  
  
Delegate speakers include: 
  
Katrin Amelang, Humboldt University Berlin, 'Inconsistent Autonomies: 
Entangled subjects, architects of time and paradoxes in projects of 
self-employment based on eBay.' 
  
Monica Bouaru Turinici, Latts/Enpc, France, 'User courses and trust 
building on eBay.' 

Frank Cartledge, Theory Coordinator Design Communication, Chelsea College of Art, "'Keeping up with the Jones' the eBay way... (what they didn't mean to tell you)"/ "Let's Get Physical - eBay and the geographies of the real"

Janice Denegri-Knott and Mike Molesworth, Bournemouth Media School, 'The 
ontological function of eBay as the actualisation of 
consumers'imaginations.' 
  
Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College, 'Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture: 
Film Collectibles and Fan Investments.' 
  
Aloysius Edoh and Patricia. K. Litho, University of East London, 'CMOA 
(Combinatorial Multi-attribute Auction): An Alternative to eBay.' 
  
Torben Elgaard Jensen, Copenhagen Business School, 'Commerce and/or 
Community - eBay's co-evolution of two different modes of ordering.' 
  
Yasushi Fujita, University of Texas, 'eBay Japan's Mistake.' 
  
Hilary Geoghegan, Royal Holloway, 'The virtual spaces of 
telecommunications enthusiasm: the internet, Yahoo! Groups and eBay.' 
  
Christian Heath and Paul Luff, King's College London, 'Transposing 
auction practice: formalising the informal, globalising the local.' 
  
Claire Hunter, 2CV: Research and Janice Denegri-Knott, Bournemouth Media 
School, 'eBay as a labourer of love: A study of collectors, their 
collections and their relationship with eBay.' 

Keyvan Kashkooli, Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, 'The Transformation of the Perfect Market.'

Dan Laughey, Leeds Metropolitan University, "eBay, self-presentation and 'user authority'." 

Alan Metcalfe (University of Sheffield), Nicky Gregson (University of 
Sheffield) and Louise Crewe (University of Nottingham), 'The Unbearable 
Lightness of eBay.' 
  
Lyndsey Miles (presenter) and Marilyn Davidson, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, 'The characteristics, motivations and experiences of eBay entrepreneurs - an exploratory study.'

Anna Notaro 'Exploring Race in the Digital Age: 'Blackness for sale' on eBay.' 
  
Joanna M. Robson, University of East Anglia, 'Receiving the message loud 
and clear? Audiencing and (web)sites of consumption.' 
  
Michele White, Tulane University, 'From eBay to eGay: Rendering "Gay 
Interest" in the Vintage Photography Category.' 


If you would like more information on accepted abstracts, go to the 
conference website: 
http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay/Accepted%20abstracts.html 
  


Important dates 


Formal registration for all no later than: 16th May 2005 

Conference dates: 24th and 25th August, 2005. 
  

More information 

For more information on any aspects of the conference, please see the conference website: 

http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html 


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Rebecca Ellis 

Chimera 

http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/index.html 

Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation 

University of Essex 

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