[Air-l] Everyday eBay--now in print

Ken Hillis khillis at email.unc.edu
Wed May 10 14:01:42 PDT 2006


Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire
Edited by Ken Hillis and Michael Petit with Nathan Epley
Routledge, April 2006

Everyday eBay is the first book-length scholarly analysis of eBay that 
examines how the site has become a global social, cultural, and economic 
phenomenon.  The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in the volume approach 
eBay from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, revealing how the 
auction site has become a bellwether of taste and material culture, a 
research tool, a nexus for the increasingly ubiquitous practice of selling 
and buying goods online, and a neoliberal facilitator of global 
consumerism.

Ken Hillis is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.





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