Aim and Scope

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

Chair Vice-Chair Secretary

Dr Martin Warnke

Leuphana University Lüneburg

D-21332 Lüneburg

Germany

 

Dr David Kreps

IS, Organisations & Society Research Centre

Salford University

Salford, Lancashire

M5 4WT, UK

Prof Claus Pias

Leuphana University Lüneburg

D-21332 Lüneburg

Germany