[Air-l] CFP - Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association

[t.kennedy at utoronto.ca]

CALL FOR PAPERS - 2002 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) 
ANNUAL MEETING 
University of Toronto
May 29 - June 1, 2002
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/eng/confe.htm

EMERGING ISSUES IN METHODOLOGY: CONDUCTING INTERNET RESEARCH
Organizer: Tracy L.M. Kennedy

This session seeks to explore some of the issues and trends that are emerging 
from on-line research. Papers in this session may discuss issues of ethics and 
validity using on-line research or discuss areas such as the implications of 
conducting on-line research for the methodological field. Also considered will 
be theoretical approaches to conducting Internet research.

VIRTUAL GENDER
Organizer: Tracy L. M. Kennedy

This session seeks to unravel how gender is inscribed and reproduced in 
cyberspace. Papers in this session may discuss the intersections between 
masculinity, femininity and technology in the virtual world, identity 
construction, the fluidity of gender in cyberspace (gender swapping) or 
transgendering technology. Also considered for discussion will be analysis of 
the representation of gender in cyberspace and how these representations are 
either empowering or problematic.

Please send a 250 word abstract with your name, address, phone number, email, 
university affiliation by December 15th, 2001 to:

Tracy L. M. Kennedy
tkennedy at netwomen.ca
or snail mail:
Graduate Dept of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, ON M5S 2J4
Tel: 905-327-9926

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