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 both [log in to unmask]
and [log in to unmask] . Include in
the subject field VW ETHICS.