A Space for the Trace
| Autor: | Ken Hillis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Cultural Studies
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Space (commercial competition) Digital media Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Narrative media_common business.industry 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Advertising Object (philosophy) Urban Studies Trace (semiology) Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY Psychology Exchange value business 050703 geography Indexicality |
| Zdroj: | Space and Culture. 9:140-156 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8308 1206-3312 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1206331205285860 |
| Popis: | eBay the firm and eBay as a set of everyday cultural practices together arise at a time of material excess combined with an intensified exteriorization of memory processes onto digital media devices. Exchange and use values on eBay are negotiated through elaborate, at times sensational, narrative histories contextualizing the object's past, ambiguous images, and fetishized practices. Individuals may pay a premium for a sense of imagined experience “exchanged” through buyers and sellers and other browsers through these narratives prior to the actual sale of any object. The indexicality of eBay—the sense that one is able somehow to experience a trace of the object or, just as important, its seller through online media—works to suggest that authenticity is transferable, an exchange value available to the highest bidder. The growing belief that Web sites such as eBay constitute the equivalent of material space contributes to this perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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