TUESDAY, April 9, p.m., Room 46

SYMPOSIUM L:
Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace

Chairpersons: F.Heylighen, Belgium, and S.A.Umpleby, USA

14.00-14.30: Language and Metaphors of Cyberspace
G.J.Marshall, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
14.30-15.00: Four Models from Cybernetics to Guide our Understanding of Cyberspace
S.A.Umpleby, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
15.00-15.30: Electronic Agrarianism: Or Thomas Jefferson Gets a Modem
K.Howley, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-16.30: CYBERSTADT: Problems of Growth of Virtual Communities
M.J.Lipner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
16.30-17.00: Of Mind, Body and Machine: Cyborg Cultural Politics in the Age of Hypertext
J.M.Albright, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
17.00-17.30: The Distortion of the Outside/Inside Antonymy
A.Cecchi, Terni, Italy
17.30-18.00: Fiction as Artificial Life: Exploring the Ideosphere
M.A.Taylor, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan