Buy It Now : Lessons from eBay

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,"...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	White, Michele (Author)
Corporate Author:	Duke University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Electronic commerce > Social aspects. Internet and women. Internet > Social aspects. Online identities. Commerce électronique > Aspect social. Internet et femmes. Internet > Aspect social. COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book