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1. Google and the Culture of Search

   By Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett

   What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Everyday eBay

   Culture, Collecting, and Desire

   Edited by Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Nathan Scott Epley

   Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich...

   Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge