[Discussion] UPDATE: Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology (10/30/04; edited book)

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The University of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost
and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology. We have
already received a good number of outstanding contributions from
different countries. Some of the writers have asked for more time to
complete their essays. The deadline has therefore been extended to
October 30th. We also welcome new submissions.

The book is peer-reviewed and due for publication in spring 2005.


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 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


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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