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In January 2013, after eighteen months as Secretary and 3 years as Vice-Chair, David Kreps became Chair of the IFIP 9.5 WG.

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