List members may be interested in the following seminar. The fifth in a series of ESRC funded seminars on "Immateriality in theory and practice: Living in the Matrix" will be held at Teesside University, UK on 1st February 2002. The theme of the seminar will be: Putting Place into Cyber-Space: Where the real and virtual meet. Much has been made in cyberspace literature and debates about the liberating experiences and transforming qualities of virtual spaces and computer-mediated relationships. This seminar attempts to examine how aspects of the corporeal may act to shape the virtual. It attempts to gain an insight into this unbounded terrain from a number of entry points.There will be presentations by, Roger Burrows, Stephen Graham, Mike Hardey, Leigh Keeble, Brian Loader, Graham McBeath, Jo Twist, and Stephen Webb with plenty of time for discussion by those attending. There are a limited number of places available and anyone who would like to participate should contact Wendy Bland w.k.bland@tees.ac.uk for further details of the programme, time and place of the seminar. Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested in coming to the seminar. The papers that will be presented are: Stephen Graham Centre for Urban Technology University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Networked Mobilities and Urban Social Inequality : The Construction of Premium Networked Spaces Roger Burrows Centre for Housing Policy, University of York Virtual Community Care? An Analysis of the Experience of Computer Mediated Social Support Brian Loader and Leigh Keeble CIRA, University of Teesside Creating the Open School: re-connecting the young excluded? Michael Hardey University of Southampton Meeting the virtual in real life: Internet dating and the negotiation of identity Stephen Webb University of Sussex Avatar Culture and Virtual Environments Graham McBeath University College Northampton Analysing the Immaterial Jo Twist BBC Theorising the 'In-between' spaces. Brian Loader Director, Community Informatics Research & Applications Unit (CIRA) University of Teesside Middlesbrough TS1 3BA UK Tel: +44(0)1642 342348 Fax: +44(0)1642 342711 Email b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk