Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 06:39:45 -0800 From: Joseph Behar To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS: Edited Collection of Articles for Book Publication: Sociological Studies of Telecommunications, Computerization, and Cyberspace Original sociological articles on cyberspace, information technology, and computerization are requested for publication in an edited volume. The edited collection will present original research on the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of cyberspace and telecommunications systems. The materials will be organized around relevant and significant sociological themes and issues, and will examine the emerging social transformations associated with information technology, globalization, and cyberspace. As it is historically understood that new instrumental technologies have significant social consequences in conditioning and limiting human freedoms, this collection of articles will contribute to increasing our understanding of the social changes and new forms of political controls and social relations that accompany the creation of electronic communications in cyberspace. Submissions may focus on social relations, identity, and privacy in cyberspace, political, legal and ethical issues, social inequalities, work place transformations, globalization, property rights, and subcultural manifestations associated with computerization. The unique and necessary quality of this collection is that it would be edited and organized from a sociological perspective and emphasize the theoretical and conceptual issues that have been historically developed by sociological investigators and theorists. Unlike many current publications, the goal is to avoid futuristic hyperbole, positive and negative, and to include empirical studies of social relations and social structure. This volume is intended not as a mixed bag of popular, technical, business, educational, and philosophical writings, but is planned to offer systematic sociological investigations. Articles should not exceed approximatelt thirty double-spaced pages, including all tables, illustrations, endnotes, and references. Two copies of the article should be sent to Prof. Joseph E. Behar, Department of Sociology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York 11769. Inquiries are welcome. e-mail: jbehar@igc.apc.org Telephone: 516-567-0356. Publisher: Dowling College Press. Series: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Publication Distribution: State University of New York at Binghamton. Early 1997. Deadline for submissions: June 15, 1996. (Please post this notice on other systems for open distribution)