IFIP 9.5 WG

New Call for Papers published Information Systems Journal Special Issue

The Call for Papers for the Virtual Worlds as Information Systems: A Special Issue of ISJ on Virtual
World Technology and Information Systems, is now available. Please see the CFP link in the menu on the left for full details.

IFIP Working Group 9.5 (Virtuality & Society)

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:

• Ethics of virtuality
• Virtual media and art
• Computing games
• Telemedicine
• Internet studies
• Organizational Aspects of Virtuality
• Virtual politics and political web-sites
• Virtual reality

For further information please email: info@ifip95wg.org