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Special Issue on Electronic Communication and Sociology

``` Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:36:19 -0800 From: Edward Brent (by way of Terry Winograd ) Subject: Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS The American Sociologist

Special Issue on Electronic Communication and Sociology

The American Sociologist invites submissions for a special issue to be titled "Electronic Communication and Sociology." Papers should deal with issues surrounding electronic communication and its implications for sociology--both good and bad. Electronic communication is broadly conceived both technologically and socially. It includes Email, local area networks, modems, faxes, wireless communications, BITNET, the INTERNET, multimedia, commercial networks and services such as Prodigy and CompuServe, telecommuting, distance learning, research collaboration at a distance, sociological studies of electronic communication, using electronic communication to access scholarly resources and datasets, electronic journals, reader lists, bulletin boards, remote access to computers and resources, cyberspace, on-line conferencing, fax-on-demand, and telephony.

Topics might include but are not limited to the following:

  • Implications of electronic communication for distance learning,
    • extension, and outreach
  • How BITNET and the INTERNET are changing research in sociology
  • How sociological practice is changing due to electronic communication
  • Research opportunities afforded by electronic communication
  • Integrating electronic communication & multimedia into the sociology
    • curriculum
  • How will electronic communication change social life?
  • Using local area networks to collect data and conduct social
    • psychological experiments
  • Electronic communications as a data source for sociological research
  • Invisible colleges in the electronic age
  • Security and privacy issues in distributed data
  • Problems with electronic communication including threats to productivity
  • Weighing electronic publications and other computer-based work in
    • the tenure decision
  • Resources on the INTERNET and their implications for sociological
    • research and teaching
  • The role of sociologists in public policy formation regarding the
    • information superhighway
  • What should the ASA and other professional associations do to take
    • advantage of electronic communication in the discipline?

    Submit four copies of your paper, in TAS style, before March 1, 1995, to either special-issue coeditor:

    Edward Brent Edward Mirielli Department of Sociology Idea Works, Inc. University of Missouri 607 Jackson Street Columbia, MO 65211 Columbia, MO 65203 SOCBRENT@MIZZOU1 RUSOEDM@MIZZOU1 FAX: (314) 875-5812 FAX: (314) 875-5812 Voice: (314) 882-9172 Voice: (314) 875-5827 ```