The Call for Papers for the Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping Track of the 9th Human Choice and Computers Conference, part of the World Computer Congress in Brisbane 20-23 September 2010, is now available. Please see the link in the menu on the left for full details.
The IFIP Working Group 9.5 (Virtuality & Society) sees information and communication technologies as being intertwined with society. In this sense, virtuality is taken as constituting both the social and the technical modes of existence. The aim therefore of this W.G. is to explore the globality of virtuality, the complex, emergent and changing nature of this field and to act as a location for transdisciplinary work on virtuality. Through workshops and conferences the W.G. will promote a dialogue and mutual exchange from a diverse set of disciplines such as computing, information systems, media studies, social theory and philosophy but also anthropology, organizational studies, gender studies, politics and ethics.
The scope of the working group is all aspects of virtuality as evident in a multiplicity of empirical sites and social phenomena. Given its scope, we welcome contributors from, but not limited to, the following areas:
For further information please email: info@ifip95wg.org
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Dr Martin Warnke Leuphana University Lüneburg D-21332 Lüneburg Germany
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Dr David Kreps IS, Organisations & Society Research Centre Salford University Salford, Lancashire M5 4WT, UK |
Dr Claus Pias Institut für Philosophie University of Vienna Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1 1010 Vienna Austria
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