Call for Papers: Gender and Computing

CALL FOR ARTICLES EJVC: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON VIRTUAL CULTURE

Special Issue: Gender Issues in Computer Networking

Issue Editor: Leslie Regan Shade

		McGill University
		Graduate Program in Communications
                (czsl[_at_]musica.mcgill.ca; shade[_at_]well.sf.ca.us)

EJVC is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research and discussion of all aspects of computermediated  human experience, behavior, action, and interaction.

This special issue of the EJVC will be devoted to gender issues in networking. Despite the abundance of various private networks and the meteoric growth of the Internet,this rapidly expanding user base does not include an equal proportion of men and women. How can women become equally represented in the new "electronic frontier" of cyberspace? Issues to be discussed can include, but are not limited to, the following:
*Access issues--to hardware, software, and training. What
barriers do women face? What are some success stories?
*How can women be given the technical expertise to become
comfortable and versatile with computer networking?
*Interface design: can there be a feminist design?
*How can networking realize its potential as a feminist tool?
*How can woman scholars exploit networking's technology?
*What information technology policies could be developed
to ensure computer networking equity for women, as well as minorities?
*How does one define computer pornography and "offensive" material
on the net? Should it be allowed?
*How should sexual harassment on the net be treated?
*Are women-only groups necessary?
*How do women interact on MUDS and MOOs?
*What net resources exist for women?

Deadlines:     December 1, 1993   submission of abstracts
               April 1, 1994 submission of contributions

Abstracts will be reviewed by the issue editor for appropriateness  of content and overall balance of the issue as a whole. In turn, authors will then be invited to submit full-length contributions, which will be peer-reviewed by the journal's normal editorial process before final acceptance for publication. The issue editor encourages correspondence about proposed contributions even before submission of an abstract.

Potential contributors may obtain a more detailed statement about the focus and range of this special issue by sending electronic mail to the issue editor with the Subject line: EJVC Issue or by anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu, directory /pub/ejvc, get ejvc.shade.call.

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Also, the file is available by anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in the pub/ejvc directory. Received on Mon Sep 27 1993 - 03:10:32 GMT