Event notification: On 7 February 2008, the Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) is organising its 10th seminar of a bi-annual series on economic methodology, on the topic ‘Economics and Politics: Defining Neoliberalism’. Philip E. Mirowski will give the keynote lecture, followed by paper by Steve Farrall, Rolland Munro and Paul Smith. Venue: Keele University. […]
The Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) invites proposals for contributions to its seventh seminar (May 2007) in a series on the methodology of economics, with the discussion headed off by Irene van Staveren as guest speaker. Seminar contributions from any perspective shedding light on economics as a moral science are welcome.
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Ethnographers, by and large, regard online ethnographies with a certain amount of scepticism. Do we not have here a technology like any other, so that we should look at the social materiality that embeds virtual spaces such as multi-user online games, chat rooms and the like, rather than emersing ourselves into those spaces as ethnographers […]
Yet another fascinating Terra Nova discussion, this time on social structures called 'guilds' in various multi-user online games. Some guilds at least appear to be based around communal forms of exchange and coordination of in-game resources, while those games offer rudimentarily instituted market exchange alongside. Which, as one commentator astutely put it, raises Coase's original […]
Still one of the best dicussions of the ethical aspects of online ethnogrphical research of the radical participatory kind follows a useful introduction to the topic by Terra Nova's Constance Steinkuehler.
One particularly fruitful perspective that emerged in that discussion is the idea of treating one's informants as fellow researchers, and citing them as one would […]
Thanks to isnoop we now have, in its raw outlines, a fascinating case study of the stellar rise and sudden demise of the first and most prominent GMail invites spooler service. Following Google's viral launch of their 1GB free but P2P invitation only webmail on 1 April 2004, invites began trading on eBay for $100 […]