Apologies for cross-posting. Please disseminate widely. Registration for the conference closes on May 16th 2005. ************************************************************************ 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 ************************************************************************ 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 ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/index.html Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ____________________________________________