Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Sexuality and the Internet/Virtual Reality
For Volume 10 Number 2 of Convergence (Summer 2004) we are seeking
submissions on issues concerning Sexuality and the Internet and/or Virtual
Reality. This issue will be guest edited by Professor Philip Hayward from
the Division of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Over the last decade the internet has developed as a major means of
communication, service provision and retail for various communities of
interest and/or business organisations.
Papers are invited on any aspect of this phenomena, with regard to topics
such as pornography, oppression, censorship, fetishisation, community
building, sexual utopianism, new sexualities etc.
In the early 1990s there was a burst of interest in the possibilities and
limitations of technology aided/mediated physically stimulative sexual
activities, often referred to as 'virtual sex' or 'teledildonics'. Papers
are invited on this topic, either revisiting discussion of the phenomena or
analysing more recent developments in the field.
Submission deadline for this issue is: 30 October 2003
Proposals for articles or completed papers should be sent to Philip Hayward,
Humanities, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. E-mail
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