Apologies for cross-posting. Please disseminate widely. Second call for papers. Please send abstracts/ poster ideas by 29th April 2005. Registration is now open. This is a second call for papers, posters and interest in attending a two-day conference at the University of Essex, UK: ************************************************************************ *** 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 ************************************************************************ *** 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/about/staff.php?id=180 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.' 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.' Alan Metcalfe (University of Sheffield), Nicky Gregson (University of Sheffield) and Louise Crewe (University of Nottingham), 'The Unbearable Lightness of eBay.' Anna Notaro, Radboud University Nijmegen, '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 Abstracts and posters no later than: 29th April 2005 Acceptance notification: 3rd May 2005 PowerPoint presentations no later than: 29th July 2005 Formal registration for all no later than: 16th May 2005 Conference dates: 24th and 25th August, 2005. 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 themes The conference themes have been written in order to accommodate the interests of both academics and practitioner groups. See the conference website (Conference themes and scope section) for a full and detailed outline of potential research questions that could be addressed under each theme. Meta themes: eBay and identity: the presentation of self/ others and knowledge performance eBay and social capital eBay, consumption and consumer lifestyles Collecting in an e-society eBay and employment effects eBay, competition and the 'perfect market' eBay and the 'real' economy eBay and website design eBay and the consumer Representations of eBay More information For more information on any aspects of the conference, including guidance for abstract and poster submissions, please see the conference website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html Additionally, please e-mail Mr Martin Hicks (hicksm and add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address) using the title 'eBay Conference' for any queries you may have. To go to this e-mail address automatically, please go to the conference website. ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/index.html Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ________________________________________