Subject: Re: Call for Papers: SOCIOLOGIES OF CYBERSPACE
From: Oscar Singer
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 06:05:25 -0800
Ellis Godard wrote:
>
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> 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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