Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id LAA06263 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:30:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id NAA10046; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:29:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:29:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: asascan cc: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Forwarded Announcement (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jim Cassell Institute for Research in Social Science e-mail: cassell@irss.unc.edu University of North Carolina Ph: 919/962-0782 Fx: 919/962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 07:34:44 -0700 From: Earl Babbie To: METHODS@UNM.EDU Subject: Forwarded Announcement CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND MANUSCRIPTS Authors are invited to submit abstracts and manuscripts for an anthology that examines the impact of comupter-mediated communication on minorities, women, children, older citizens and other marginal constituents. The guiding theme for the volume is that computer-mediated communication has the potential to provide universal socialization or exacerbate the tension between elite and marginal constituents in society. The volume will explore specific issues of access and participation in cyberspace and the representation of marginal constituents in cyberculture with reference to economic, social and political empowerment. Examples of topics the volume will cover include: the conceptualization of the "information poor"; internet access in urban areas; new institutional arrangements for access of minorities to cyberspace; children, cyberspace and socialization; urban and suburban educational curricula and cyberspace; rural life and computer-mediated communication; electronic commerce and class; gender and cyberspace; virtual education, distance learning and class; demographic and psychographic division among users and nonusers of electronic networks; senior citizens, cyberspace and isolation; domestic cultural imperialism in cyberspace. Essays may use any methodological and theoretical perspective, including historical overview, philosophical speculation, sociological projection, cultural introspection, virtual ethnography, discousre analysis and quantitative analysis. Interested authors are encouraged to send a working title and a brief abstract (50 words) or a request for a copy of the book proposal to Bosah Ebo, Department of Communication, Rider University, Lawrencevill, New Jersey, 08648. Telephone: (609) 896 5105, Fax (609) 896 8029, e-mail: ebo@rider.edu +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ |kth Law of CyberSpace: We are all, as individuals, in over our heads.| |-------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Earl Babbie ][ BABBIE@NEXUS.CHAPMAN.EDU ][ CIS:76424,156 | | Chapman University, Orange CA 92666 ][ Voice: 714-997-6565 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+