[Discussion] CFP: Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology (9/30/04; edited book)

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The University Press of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled
Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology.

As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in
information and communication technology, which resonates with lived
experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get
back to the actuality of these experiences. As Merleau-Ponty claims in
his famous preface in Phenomenology of Perception: "Phenomenology is a
study of essences ... But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts
essences back into existence, and does not except to arrive at an
understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than of
their 'facticity.'" It is with this challenge in mind that Lost and
Found in Virtual reality: Women and Information Technology sees its task.

Contributors are sought for the above book (due for publication in
spring 2005) which aims to analyse how women construct their identities
and expertise when using information and communication technology. The
monograph will aim to develop and explore not only phenomenological
analysis and accounts but also a wide range of other approaches to the
making of identity, such as cognition, constructivism, and consciousness
studies, of phenomena such as (but not limited to):
     - Women, media, mediating and mediation
     - Women, collaboration and cooperation
     - Women, communicating and working
     - Women, information and communication
       technology use
     - Women and virtualisation of everyday life
     - Women, connecting and being connected
     - Women, ethics and mediation
     - Women, technology, learning and improvisation
     - Women, knowledge, knowing and action

Due date: September 30th, 2004

Format: 20 pages, double spaced, MLA style citations.

Additional information: 1) 200-word bio, 2) full name, and 3) contact
information, including e-mail, address, and phone number.

Please, send electronic submissions (MSWord or RTF) to both editors:

Hannakaisa Isom=E4ki, PhD
Professor
Department of Reseach methodology
University of Lapland
P.O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
hannakaisa.isomaki@ulapland.fi

and

Heidi Strengell, PhD, EdD
Director
Language Center
University of Lapland
P. O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
heidi.strengell@ulapland.fi or
heidi.strengell@pp.inet.fi

Requests for further information (including topics) should be directed
to the editors: Hannakaisa Isom=E4ki and Heidi Strengell.

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