[Air-L] Fwd: Call: Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds

[Michael Zimmer]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Charles Wankel <wankelc at VERIZON.NET>
> Date: June 19, 2008 12:53:23 PM EDT
> To: COMPUTER-ETHICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Call: Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds
> Reply-To: Charles Wankel <wankelc at VERIZON.NET>
>
> Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds
> Call for chapters
>
> Scholarly articles on emerging issues of life in virtual worlds such  
> as Second Life are solicited.  Work that connects streams of ethics  
> research and theory to virtual worlds as they are and to what they  
> are developing into is particularly sought.  Among the virtual world  
> issues explicitly invited are: privacy, monitoring and  
> eavesdropping, the fear of being exploited, the loss of identity,  
> ethical impacts of aesthetic decisions, values and ethics manifested  
> in the social processes and their relevance for activities such as  
> design there, professional ethics, standards of integrity given  
> identity issues and practices, malevolence and altruism, legal and  
> ethical doctrines of confidential and privileged information, ethics  
> for students and instructors, ethical development stages and issues,  
> vandalism, harassment and crime, how ethics and values are inscribed  
> in the discourse and practices of social groups, and how they can  
> change and emerge in the midst of pragmatic concerns, such as  
> collective tasks.
>
> Proposals of any length are welcome, though the more detailed and  
> clear the easier it will be for us to have it properly reviewed.  
> Also, include your full contact information, institution affiliation  
> and position. Please include information on your related  
> publications and other work.
>
> Schedule.
> Proposals due August 15, 2008.
> Notification of acceptance/rejection decision after review process,  
> September 1, 2008.
> First drafts of chapters due, January 15, 2009.
> Revised final drafts due, March 15, 2009.
> Publication, June 15, 2009 (Information Age Publishing, Charlotte,  
> NC).
>
> Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York, and Shaun  
> Malleck, University of California, Irvine. Send all correspondence  
> to bothwankelc at stjohns.edu and skmalleck at gmail.com . Include in the  
> subject field VW ETHICS.
>