This article is about the ability of the consumer to control his or her destiny in the new electronic marketspace. Two seemingly opposite phenomena - the need for privacy and the desire for exhibitionism and voyeurism - are vying for attention on the media landscape. We believe the simultaneous...

For the purpose of this chapter, we use the distinction between the kinematic and the entrepreneurial investor largely as an analytical tool to emphasize the most salient features of the online investing experience as it evolved over the last ten or so years through the emergence of the...

This article puts forth the argument that with the transfer of stock trading from what could be called an analog world of phone calls, faxes, and trips to the local bank, to the computer-mediated environment of the computer screen, the market becomes the site for new types of individual...

In this paper we argue that the connectivity of the networked market permits market participants to perceive causal relationships between consumer behaviour and its effects on others. We theorize that the globally networked markets of the information age give birth to new cognitive structures...