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• 22 Sep 09
  

  Wayne Barry

  Are fundamental shifts taking place in how people behave, organise themselves and interact as a result of electronic technologies? This is the central question addressed by an exciting Research Programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The answers will have a crucial bearing on commercial and business success, and on the quality of life.
  
  New electronic technologies are widely regarded as the impetus for radical changes. These include interactive and multimedia communications, Internet and World Wide Web, video conferencing, virtual realities, computer-aided design, the information super highway, and the new technologies of electronic surveillance and consumer profiling. All are set to modify the nature and experience of interpersonal relations and communications and the form and substance of social control, participation and cohesion. The development of new information and communication technologies is central to emerging industries and regulatory policies throughout the world, based on the recognition that the new electronic information and communication technologies are key to future vitality. UK and European White Papers on Growth and Competitiveness, and users in industry, have in turn identified the social context in which technologies are actually used as a key area which is poorly understood. The Virtual Society? Research Programme aims to shape policy and practice through a better understanding of electronic technologies and information infrastructures in their development and use.

  social media social software social science society virtual ESRC research

• 27 May 09
  

  Dorota Tylus

  papers and reports on virtual society

  digital_culture research virtualworld sociology internet_sociology

• 17 Nov 07
  

  katarina peovic

  virtual

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