Virtual War

[marct]

Hi Selil

I’ve been trying for the last few years to define where this would be in the academic world. It’s important if you want to publish on the topic. I’m a technologist (computer forensic scientist), I’ve been thinking this area of inquiry is technology anthropology, or technology sociology, but I haven’t found a military discipline that would fit. This is likely due to my own lack of knowledge about military matters. I was a Marine corporal not a general.

Try Science, Technology and Society (STS). We've done some of this in Anthropology, for example there was a really excellent MA thesis by Ian Ferguson called "Sacred Realms and icons of the damned; the ethnography of a internet-based child pornography ring" (MA Thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, 1998). There's also a fairly good historical overview at http://web3.cas.usf.edu/main/depts/A...CMAhistory.htm

Marc