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Virtual Society? Get Real!
Programme
Please click on the names of the speakers to access their paper abstracts.
For a review of the conference in M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture by Nicola Doering, please click here.
Programme - 4th May 2000
10:00 Coffee and registration
Session 1 - plenary
11:00 Welcome and opening remarks
11:20 Panel Discussion [Fred Steward (Aston), Brian Loader (Teesside), Sarah Green (Manchester), Dan Shapiro
(Lancaster)]
12:00 Open discussion
12:30 Lunch
Session 2
14:00 Keynote talk - plenary - chair: Roger Burrows
Mel Pollner (UCLA) - Inside the bubble: Community, meaning and deep play at the intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace
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Virtuality in real contexts |
Work |
Citizenship |
Designing Virtualities |
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14:40 |
Maria Bakardjieva Virtual togetherness: a perspective from everyday (real?) life. |
David Mason On the poverty of a priorism technology |
Charles Raab Negotiating privacy in a changing environment |
Neville Stanton Human supervisory control in virtual environments |
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14:55 |
Keri Facer Exploding the myth of the cyberkid |
Barbara Steward Teleworking: good for whose health? |
Jodi Dean Little Brothers: fear and secrecy in 'Cyberia' |
Richard Giordano Participatory stakeholder evaluation of web-based learning |
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15:10 |
David Morrison Finding a home for new technology |
John Hughes Where the virtual meets the real: management skill and innovation in the 'virtual organisation' |
Jean-Francois Blanchette Designing the electronic authentic act. |
Peter Swann Virtual Reality? When visualisation lacks vision |
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15:25 |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
15:45 Coffee
Session 3
16:30 Keynote Talk - Plenary - chair: Sally Wyatt
Jonathan Rée (Middlesex) - Friends on the net: neither/nor
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Virtuality in real contexts |
Work |
Citizenship |
Designing Virtualities |
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17:10 |
Leah Lievrouw ICTs and the 'Pluralisation of Life Worlds' |
Steve Brown The politics of electronic communication: E-mail for instance. |
Sergei Stafeev Russia: from NGO's networks to community networks |
Christine Hine Ideas of audience in web page design |
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17:25 |
Gillian Youngs Virtual connections: the case of women on the Net |
Marco Diani IHATEYOU.org: a sociology of the virtual communities of cyber-hate groups |
Steve Carver Cyber-democracy and public participation in spatial environmental decision making |
Scott Lash New media and networks of digital objects |
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17:40 |
Tim Jordan Hacktivism: direct action on the electronic flows of information societies |
Rob Shields Managing Knowledge and expertise: the public service as a 'virtual organisational space' |
Ari Heinonen Bridging the gap: bringing the information society into citizen's everyday life |
Richard Hull Who designs all this stuff? the expert labour behind the Virtual |
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18:00 |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
18:30 Close
20:00 Dinner
Programme - 5th May 2000
Session 4 - plenary
08:30 Keynote Talk - Plenary - chair: Steve Brown
Deborah Heath (Lewis and Clark) - Biocultural Informatics: Doing Anthropology of Genetics
In Vivo and In Silico
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Virtuality in real contexts |
Commerce |
Citizenship |
Health |
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09:15
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Don Slater The Internet is not virtual in Trinidad |
David Knights Keeping up appearances: virtual progress in 'progressing' the 'virtual' |
Brian McGrail Confronting electronic surveillance |
Michael Hardey The story of my illness: personal accounts of illness on the Internet |
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09:30 |
Sally Wyatt They came, they surfed, they went back to the beach |
Robbin te Velde Building on the Internet |
Ivan Horrocks Virtual Hype? New media and the transformation of political parties and party systems |
Roger Burrows When welfare is wired: understanding the experience of on-line social support |
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09:45
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Janet Abbate Virtual nation-building in Estonia |
Jonathan Allen How Psion got its groove back: technology strategy in emerging IT industries |
Nicola Doering The impact of private sex sites on the web |
Craig Murray Ethical issues in the use of Internet posts |
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10.00 (onwards) |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
10:30 Coffee
Session 5
11:00 Keynote Talk - Plenary - chair: Penny Harvey
Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) - Abstraction and decontextualisation: an
anthropological comment
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Virtuality in real contexts |
Organisations |
Virtual communities |
Education |
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11:40
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Sonia Liff From the social to the virtual... and back again? |
Eleanor Burt Voluntary Organisations: Values and Virtuality |
Jason Rutter Identity is ordinary: presentations of self in everyday online life |
Charles Crook Virtual practices and campus culture |
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11:55 |
Geoff Cooper Mobile Society? technology, distance and presence |
Casper Bruun-Jensen Agency, representation and accountability |
Martin Lea How social is the Internet? |
Neil Jacobs Scholarly communication and 'technology' |
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12:10
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Penny Harvey From cotton to computers : ICTs in a post-industrial city |
Tracy Ibbotson Social and organisational implications of telemedicine |
Maren Hartmann Space flight and Net-citizenship |
James Cornford Theory and practice of the Virtual University? |
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12:25
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Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
Open discussion |
13:00 Lunch
Session 6
14:00 Plenary Discussion (including Mel Pollner, Jonathan Rée, Deborah Heath,
Marilyn Strathern, Frank Webster and David Morrison) and Summing Up
15:30 Close and coffee
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