UID:
kobvindex_HPB806017787
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 317 pages :
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illustrations
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
ISBN:
9780822391876
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0822391872
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9786613854568
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6613854565
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1283542110
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9781283542111
Series Statement:
Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
Content:
In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements ""configure the user, "" allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while concurrently upholding and promoting particular social values, practices, and norms.
Note:
Introduction : lessons and methods from eBay --
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Between security and distrust : eBay's brand, fan, and virtual communities --
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Pins, cards, and Griffith's jacket : producing identity and brand communities through eBay Live! conferences and collecting --
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You can 'get it on' eBay: selling gender, sexuality, and organizational logic through the interface --
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eBay's visible masculinities : 'gay' and 'gay interest' listings and the politics of describing --
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eBay boys will be lesbians : viewing 'lesbian' and 'lesbian interest' vintage photography listings --
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Re-collecting black Americana : "absolutely derogatory" objects and narratives from eBay's community --
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Afterword : everything in moderation: the regulating aspects of Craigslist and the moral assertions of 'community flagging'.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: White, Michele, 1962- Buy it now. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780822352266
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822352265
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822391876
URL:
Concordia University of Edmonton Access
URL:
HathiTrust Digital Library
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391876
URL:
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