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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.
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