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[RRE]Virtual Society? Get Real! - conference announcement
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:16:18 +0000
From: steve woolgar
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Conference announcement and CfP Virtual Society ? Get Real ! 4-5th May 2000, Ashridge House, Hertfordshire, north west of London
The last few years have seen a burgeoning awareness of the potential impact of new electronic technologies. We recognise the crucial need to understand the social circumstances which can realise technological benefits, to temper cyberbole with social scientific research. Frameworks have been developed to help us ask: to what extent are significant changes in the ways we interact, relate to each other and organise ourselves associated with the new technologies. So what now are the prospects for a "virtual society"? Are we now at the point where we can remove the question mark Should we replace it with an exclamation mark! Or should we now redouble our analytic scepticism??
This major international conference is being held to reflect on the current state of the art. It marks the culmination of 2 years research under the UK's ESRC Programme: Virtual Society? the social science of electronic technologies. The conference brings together researchers working both in and beyond the VS? Programme. The aim is to take stock, to reflect on the wider perspective and to identify the best ways forward.
Possible sub themes include: e-commerce: has the bubble burst?; resisting the virtual life; education; self, responsibility and ethics; space, place and locality; social exclusion; what to do with counter-intuitive findings?; privacy and surveillance; ICTs, audit and accountability.
Keynote speakers include Leigh Star (UC San Diego), Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge), Jonathan Ree (Middlesex), Mel Pollner (UC Los Angeles) and Deborah Heath (Lewis and Clark). Other speakers include: Steve Brown (Loughborough), Roger Burrows (York), Eleanor Burt (Glasgow Caledonian), Steve Carver (Leeds), Charles Crook (Loughborough), Penny Harvey (Manchester), John Hughes (Lancaster), Tracey Ibbotson (Glasgow), David Knights (Keele), Scott Lash (Goldsmiths), Martin Lea (Manchester), Sonia Liff (Warwick), Paul Light (Bournemouth), Brian Loader (Teesside), David Mason (Plymouth), Brian McGrail (Open University), David Morrison (Leeds), Charles Raab (Edinburgh), Kevin Robins (Goldsmiths), Neville Stanton (Brunel), Peter Swann (Manchester), Frank Webster (Birmingham) and Sally Wyatt (UEL)
The conference will cover participants' accommodation and travel costs (with a contribution towards travel costs for overseas participants), although places are limited. Deadline for paper abstracts (500 words) is 22nd March 2000; registration deadline is 29th March 2000. See website http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/virtsoc for details and online registration. For further information contact Caroline Ingram at: caroline.ingram@brunel.ac.uk
Professor Steve Woolgar, Director ESRC Virtual Society? Programme Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH England +44 (0)1895 203210 +44 (0)1895 203071 (fax)
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