Consumer desire and the social drama of William Gibson’s eBay

This is a much shortened version of a paper written by Janice Denegri-Knott Mike Molesworth (and with some imput by Detlev Zwick) and currently under review. Don’t cite without permission please.   I wonder, though, at the extent to which eBay facilitated my passage through this particular consumer obsession. Into it and out the other… [Read more…]