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Ellis Godard wrote:
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> (Please post or forward this notice elsewhere, as appropriate, for open
> distribution.)
> 
>                    Call for Papers
> 
>                 SOCIOLOGIES OF CYBERSPACE
> 
>         The board of the Virginia Review of Sociology invites the
> submission of candidate chapters for a special volume titled "The
> Sociologies of Cyberspace." This volume will address whether and to what
> extent cyberspace represents, presents, or conduces social change of
> significance - that is, the manners in which and the degrees to which
> cyberspace is different from other social arenas, and whether and how
> this is sociologically significant. For purposes of this volume, we
> conceive cyberspace to include all forms of computer-mediated and
> -enhanced communications and interactions.
> 
>         We will give preference to those submissions that advance
> methodological approaches to, explicitly account for empirical findings
> about, and develop theoretical understandings of cyberspace.  We are
> particularly interested in papers that go beyond a psychological and
> individualistic analysis, and particularly encourage those submissions
> that make comparative use of several online services and/or social
> groups.  We hope to include a variety of empirical, methodological, and
> theoretical approaches to cyberspace, and intend to emphasize the
> possible diversity of such approaches.
> 
>         Possible topics include, but are not limited to: patterns of
> social life online, including demographic distributions as well as
> patterns of social control, boundary enforcement, role enactment,
> community building, resource allocation, and collective behavior;
> political, economic, and other determinants of online social life; and
> political, economic, religious, and other social consequences and
> implications of cyberspace, particularly including interactions between
> online and offline social life.
> 
>         Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate, printed in double
> spacing on only one side of each page.  Citations and references should
> conform to that system prescribed by and for the American Journal of
> Sociology.
> 
>         Comments and queries are welcomed and encouraged.  For further
> information, or to submit a paper, please contact the editor of the
> volume J. Ellington ("Ellis") Godard, Cabell Hall 539, University of
> Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 (jeg5s@virginia.edu).  The
> faculty advisor for this volume will be Thomas M. Guterbock, and the
> series editor is Donald Black.
> 
>         The Virginia Review of Sociology is a series of volumes
> published by JAI Press, and coordinated and edited by the graduate
> students and faculty of Sociology at the University of Virginia.  Each
> volume explores and reflects current empirical and theoretical
> development within the field of sociology.  Themes of previous volumes
> have included law and conflict management, and cultural conflict in
> modern America.
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An der Biologischen Anstalt Helgoland, einer Forschungseinrichtung im
Geschaeftsbereich des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft,
Forschung und Technologie, ist in der Abteilung Experimentelle Oekologie im
Rahmen eines DFG-Projektes zur Klimawirkungsforschung
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1. Januar 1997 die Stelle eines/r
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zu besetzen.
Die Anstellung erfolgt bis zum 31.03.1998. Die Verguetung erfolgt je nach 
Qualifikation nach dem Bundesangestelltentarifvertrag (BAT).

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