This may well be of interest to members of this list. Apologies for any cross-posting.
I am currently buried in administration as I was appointed Deputy to my own Head, which sometimes requires I be on two campuses 45 miles apart at almost the same time. Best, John >X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1286897394-335503c00000-mdhJs0 >X-Barracuda-URL: http://130.70.132.34:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi >X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: [email protected] >X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tudelft.nl >X-Spam-Flag: NO >X-Spam-Score: -2.88 >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.88 tagged_above=-99 required=5 > tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, BAYES_00=-1.9, PROLO_LEO3=0.01, > PROLO_LEO5=0.01] autolearn=ham >X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Call for Papers for a Special >Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on >Friendship Online - Extended Deadline! >Subject: Call for Papers for a Special Issue >with Ethics and Information Technology on >Friendship Online - Extended Deadline! >Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:27:27 +0200 >X-MS-Has-Attach: >X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: >Thread-Topic: Call for Papers for a Special >Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on >Friendship Online - Extended Deadline! >Thread-Index: ActbGl9DfuMnD1mISyGlSs9ZomvvBw== >From: "Noemi Manders-Huits - TBM" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]>, ><[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Oct 2010 15:27:27.0952 >(UTC) FILETIME=[FA829D00:01CB6A21] >X-Barracuda-Connect: mailservice.tudelft.nl[130.161.131.5] >X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1286897395 >X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall at louisiana.edu >X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 >X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using >global scores of TAG_LEVEL=3.5 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=5.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= >X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.43478 > Rule breakdown below > pts rule name description > ---- ---------------------- > -------------------------------------------------- >Sender: [email protected] >Reply-To: "Noemi Manders-Huits - TBM" <[email protected]> >X-UKZN-VirusScan: ClamAV 0.96.3/12128/Tue Oct 12 15:56:03 2010 > >Dear Reader, > >The online world increasingly provides the >setting within which many of us pursue our work >lives, our hobbies and interests, and even our >more intimate lives, such as our friendships and >loves. Opportunities to express oneself and form >relationships with others have been enormously >increased by the online world. But what sorts of >identities and relationships are really >possible? And as we live more online how might >this come to affect how we understand ourselves and our relations with others? > >Communication online has provided worlds of >self-expression and interaction that seem >distinctive in a number of ways. We are, for >example, often anonymous online. But even if not >anonymous we nevertheless can typically express >ourselves and relate to others with little or >nil social transaction costs. We can enter and >exit communities or relationships without much >of the effort or costs usually attached in our >traditional worlds and we have unprecedented >global opportunities to do so. We are also able >to present ourselves and interact with others >with unusually high levels of choice and control >compared to our self-presentations and >interactions in non-virtual worlds. Moreover, >focussing on how we can present ourselves to >others has itself been taken to new levels >online - many, for example, labour over how they >present themselves on their personal websites >and some of these approximate works of art. > >In this special edition we focus on the case of >friendship and its apparent flourishing online. >People are forming friendships solely online, >many claim to have several hundred friends >online and increasingly existing friendships are >being sustained online. How, if at all, might >some features of online communication and its >use affect the sort of friendships we can form >and maintain? What, if anything, might we learn >about the nature and value of close friendship >by analysing how they are currently enabled online? > >We are interested in papers on the general topic >area of friendship in an increasingly online >world. The scope of the topic is quite broad, >implicating fundamental questions about identity >and how we may come to understand ourselves in >relation to others online, and about the nature >and value of friendship and communication >online. Accordingly, our call for papers is quite open within these areas. > >Submissions will be double-blind refereed for >relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor >and originality. High quality articles not >deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the >special issue may be considered for publication >in a subsequent non-themed issue of Ethics and Information Technology. > > >Closing date for submissions: January 7 2011 > >To submit your paper, please use the Springer >online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin > > >Please contact the special guest editor for more information, > >Dean Cocking, >[email protected] > >Or the managing editor, > >Noëmi Manders-Huits >[email protected] > >Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN) is the >major journal in the field of moral and >political reflection on Information Technology. >Its aim is to advance the dialogue between moral >philosophy and the field of information >technology in a broad sense, and to foster and >promote reflection and analysis concerning the >ethical, social and political questions >associated with the adoption, use, and development of IT. ---------- Professor John Collier, Acting HoS and Acting Deputy HoS [email protected] Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 http://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/collier/index.html _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
