[ecrea] CFP: Book Collection: Identity Technologies: producing online selves - Deadline: June 15, 2010

> CALL FOR PAPERS?
> Book Collection: Identity Technologies: producing online selves 
> ?Deadline: June 15, 2010
>
> The popularity of social networking sites, user-generated content, 
> wireless technologies and games has engendered a rapid proliferation 
> of identities and ways to imagine, produce and consume them. As a 
> result, the internet has become central to how many of its users 
> understand intimacy, communication and community. We contend that 
> this phenomenon is nothing new. Online and offline forms of identity 
> have the potential to act genealogically, challenging our ideas 
> about utopian approaches to the internet as a place without history, 
> bodies or politics.
>
> How then can we understand what identity means online and why it is 
> so important to so many internet users that they have a digital 
> existence? For us, answers to this question do not have to take the 
> form of utopian ideas about internet identities, time and space, but 
> should admit that issues about internet identity are inevitably 
> embedded in concerns about the production of discourse and about the 
> material conditions of internet  access, surveillance and use.
>
> In this essay collection, we hope to gather together investigations 
> into a whole host of questions raised by the popularity and power of 
> identity technologies. What kinds of selves are generated online? 
> How do memory and narrative, key elements of autobiography, exist 
> and persist in various forms of online subjectivity? How is identity 
> related to virtual time and space? How do we account for the role of 
> recreation and entertainment in communicating an online self? How do 
> we describe and analyze the relationship between hardware and 
> software design and the identities they occasion and transmit? Is it 
> possible to resist the hail of ITs (internet technologies)? What is 
> the relationship between identity politics and ITs? We aim to bring 
> together emerging ideas about identity and online life from the 
> fields of cultural studies, new media studies and auto/biography 
> studies in order to explore what online identity is and what it might mean.
>
> Please submit a completed essay by June 15, 2010. Essays must be 
> 4000-6000 words in Chicago B style with 12-point font. Essays must 
> be written in English, but they do not have to be about the 
> anglophone, western version of the internet. The collection will be 
> published in digital and paper form with a university press.?? We 
> welcome submissions which include--but are not limited to--the 
> following topics:?
>
> theorizing online identity
> questions of pedagogy
> research methods
> youth cultures and emerging identities
> social networking
> virtual lives
> online desires
> collaboration
> biography and technology
> work
> shopping
> hardware and software
> publicity and privacy
> regulation
> identity theft
> personal video
> cyberbodies and cyberspaces
> avatars
> internet surveillance
> archives
> viruses and "going viral"
> deception and authenticity
> activism
>
> Send one copy each of your submission as an electronic attachment to:
> Anna Poletti, Charles Sturt University <(apoletti /at/ csu.edu.au)>
> Julie Rak, University of Alberta <(julie.rak /at/ ualberta.ca)>
>
>
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> Dr. Anna Poletti
> Lecturer in English
> School of Humanities & Social Sciences
> Charles Sturt University
> Locked Bag 678
> Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
>
> e: (apoletti /at/ csu.edu.au)
> ph: + 61 2 6933 2478
> fax: +61 2 6933 2792

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