NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
Articles in this special issue will address the social implications of
new technologies - ranging from computer-based communications technologies
to biomedical and genetic applications. As Ursula Franklin emphasizes, we
are as interested in what new technologies prevent as what they enable.
Submissions should address one or more of the following questions:
What are the social contexts within which new technologies are developed
and applied and how do these play out?
What social changes (intended and unintended) may result from
various new technologies?
How do new technologies effect existing and future patterns of social and
global inequality?
What is the impact on social movements and political organizing
of new technologies?
How do new technologies change our understanding of knowledge and what are
the social implications of this epistemological shift?
Deadline for Submission: May 2001
Email submissions to:
Dr. Ann Travers
Information Technology and Society Editor
Electronic Journal of Sociology
atravers@sfu.