I'm working on a paper for SCS on "Ebay as Archive" and surprisingly I am finding very little intellectual work on "the world's largest marketplace." Any suggestions where I might go looking?
I am coming to the close of a dissertation project on Internet-mediated ethos, which uses eBay as a primary artifact for analysis. Unfortunately, I have found very little previously published work on eBay itself, at least in the humanities and social sciences. Laura Gurak makes brief reference to it in __Cyberliteracy__, where she notes, among other things, the commodification of "community" on eBay. Josh Boyd presented a conference paper at the 2000 National Communication Association in Seattle on eBay as virtual orality "without an auctioneer's voice." Part of this paper is published in __American Speech__ , vol. 76:3. I did find more resources in business journals, but because they were not as useful to me I do not save a list of those sources. As I recall even the major database search engines: EBSCO, Infotrack, etc., came up with hits on eBay in business journals. Mike T. Hubler