CFP: Trials & Tribulations - Negotiating Research Methods in Cyberspace
*Concordia University; Montréal, QC November 10 - 11, 2006* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technological innovations such as the Internet, cell phones, MP3 players and video game consoles have changed the ways in which people work, play, interact, communicate and define who they are. As use of these technologies increases, so have the methodological opportunities for researchers who study the ways in which people, both children and adults, use and experience digital culture. Academic interest surrounding these emerging technologies varies as widely as the disciplines themselves. This poses a variety of challenges in researching digital culture given that every discipline employs unique methodologies specific to their field of study. As this type of research is still emerging, opportunities for the development of original and innovative ways of capturing on-line experiences continue to arise. This makes it particularly important for scholars across a variety of disciplines to come together to share the ways in which they have pushed the limits of traditional methods and overcome the challenges of research surrounding digital culture. We aim to invite those who have an interest in and experience with conducting research online, not only as a tool but as space of inquiry. We hope to attract a range of scholars, from students who are beginning their research to seasoned academics who can share their experiences working with digital methods. The goal of this symposium is to encourage informal discussion, therefore participation will be limited. For this, we invite papers that focus on but not limited to: * Ethical Issues * Researching video game console culture * Fieldwork Boundaries & Possibilities * From online & offline and back again: the question of merging identity * Post-Virtual Research: Situating the virtual as a space of inquiry after the real/virtual debate * Ethnography in cyberspace * The future of qualitative research online *SUBMISSION INFORMATION: * 300-500 word abstract, excluding references Deadline for Submissions: July 1st, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2006 Please send a copy of your abstract to *both* Shanly Dixon, Humanitites (dixons@alcor.concordia.ca) & Kelly Boudreau, Sociology & Anthropology ( kelly@gamecode.ca)
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.
--- Ken Hillis <khillis@email.unc.edu> wrote:
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.
Certainly we have bellwether on e-bay - http://search.ebay.co.uk/bellwether_W0QQfcclZ1QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 but are we seeing a rather more pervasive phenomenon - the following definition from financial markets (this from ANZ Bank, for example: Bellwether (from the sheep which leads the flock) a barometer. Financial markets commentators speak of a particular bond being the bellwether stock, meaning that movements in its price are indicative of the mood or health of the market in general) - of a term being used entirely out of context? Dominic Pinto BA MIEEE MCMI MRi FRSA Independent Advisor 36 Bedfordbury Flat 29 Covent Garden London WC2N 4DQ e-m: dominic.pinto@ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001
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Ken Hillis