[ecrea] CFP Cyber Autoethnography, Cyber Culture, and Cyber Identities

CFP

Cyber Autoethnography, Cyber Culture, and Cyber Identities

Editor: Dr. Ahmet Atay (College of Wooster)

Special Issue: /Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies/

Traditionally, most autoethnograhic research dealt with cultural 
experiences that are bounded by the idea of relational aspects of our 
communication and by our presentations and performances of identities in 
physical and cultural contexts. Hence, this research has focused on the 
physical dimensions of human experiences, such as coming out (Adams, 
2011), bulimia and body (Tilmann, 1996), face-to-face interactions, 
family relationships (Poulos, 2012), disability (Lindemann, 2010), and 
home and identity (Chawla, 2014). However, not many autoethnographies 
have focused on human experiences in cyber spaces. Similarly, scholars 
working on autoethnographic research have widely ignored human 
experiences and cultural identities within mediated cultures as well as 
in digital and cyber spaces.

Some of the recent scholarship in popular culture and cultural studies 
aims to bridge the gap between autoethnography and mediated 
representations, for example, Boylorn’s (2008) work on representation of 
Black women on reality television. Furthermore, the entire issue of 
/Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies/, “Iconography of the West: 
Autoethnographic Representations of the West(erns)” examined the notion 
of representation through an autoethnographic lens. In addition to media 
representations, some scholars, such as Lavery (2007), Monaco (2010), 
and Sturm (2015), studied different aspects of television and popular 
culture fandom. Recently, Manning and Adams (2015) co-edited a special 
issue of /Popular Culture Studies Journal/, focused on the usage of 
autoethnography in popular culture scholarship

By building on the previous scholarship that discusses the link between 
media and popular culture and autoethnography, the purpose of this 
special issue is to focus on the idea of cyber or digital 
autoethnography. Building on Gajjala’s work (2002, 2004, 2006) and work 
such as that of Terri Senft (2008) as well as on work by anthropologists 
such as Tom Boellstorf (2012), we argue that because of increased 
digitalization of everyday life, our identities and realities are 
becoming increasingly mediated and digitalized. Hence, our identities 
are patched together and they are the mixture of (cyber)experiences, 
(cyber)stories and (cyber/mediated) representations. In order to study 
our lived experiences within a culture, which is heavily digitalized, we 
need to develop a methodology that would allow such experiences to be 
studied. In this special issue, our goal is to develop the theoretical 
framework of cyber autoethnography and also present cyber 
autoethnographic writing that breaks the boundaries of traditional, 
physical-based, space-bound autoethnographies.

In this special issue, our goal is to develop the theoretical framework 
of cyber autoethnography and also present cyber autoethnographic writing 
that breaks the boundaries of traditional, physical-based, space-bound 
autoethnographies.

We welcome autoethnographic manuscripts that engage (but are not limited 
to) the following domains of issues and experience:

1-Theorizing cyber autoethnography

2-Cyber identities and autoethnography

3-Cyborgs

4-Digial homes

5-Cyber autoethnography and cyber culture

6-Cyber cosmopolitanism

Abstracts are due by January 25, 2017, with a word length of no more 
than 500 words. Full- length manuscripts are due on August 25, 2017, 
with a word length of no more than 6,000 words including references, 
endnotes, and so forth. Abstracts should emailed as Word documents to 
Ahmet Atay ((aatay /at/ wooster.edu)) for an initial review.

Work Cited

Adams, Tony E. /Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex 
Attraction/. New York:

Left Coast Press. 2011. Press.

Boellstorf, Tom., Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T. L. Taylor. 
/Ethnography and Virtual/

/Worlds: A handbook of Method/. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 
2012. Print.


          Boylorn, Robin M. “As Seen on TV: An Autoethnographic
          Reflection on Race and Reality


          Television. /Critical Studies in Media Communication/ 25.4
          (2008): 413-433. Print.


          Gajjala, Radhika. An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist
          Cyberethnography: Complicity and


          Resistance in the “Cyberfield.” /Feminist Media Studies/,
          /2/(2), (202): 177-193. Print.


          Gajjala, Radhika. (2004). “Negotiating cyberspace/negotiating
          RI.” In /Our Voices: Essays in/


          /Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication/, edited by Alberto
          Gonzales, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, 82-91. Los
          Angeles: Roxbury. 2004. Print.


          Gajjala, Radhika. (2006). “Cyberethnography: Reading South
          Asian digital diaspora.” In /Native/


          /on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual
          age/, edited by Kyra Landzelius, 272-291. London: Routledge,
          2006. Print.


          Lavery, David. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to
          Tears.” /Flow / 5.9 (2007). Web.


          Lindemann, Kurt. Cleaning Up my (Father’s) Mess: Narrative
          Containments of “Leaky”


          Masculinities. /Qualitative Inquiry 16/, (2010): 29-38. Print.


          Manning, Jimmie. & Tony E. Adams, T. E. (eds). Connecting the
          personal and the popular:


          Autoethnography and popular culture. /The Popular Culture
          Journal/, 3 (2015). [Special issue on popular culture and
          autoethnography.]


          Monaco, Jeanette. “Memory Work, Autoethnography, and the
          Construction of a Fan-


          Ethnography.” /Participations/ 7.1 (2010). Web.


          Poulos, Christopher. Stumbling into Relating: Writing a
          Relationship with My Father.


          /Qualitative Inquiry /18(2) (2012): 197-202. Print.


          Tillmann-Healy, Lisa M. “A Secret Life in a Culture of
          Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food,


          and Bulimia.” In Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of
          Qualitative Writing, edited by Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P.
          Bochner, 76-108.Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996.


          Senft, Theresa, Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of
          Social Networks. Single author.


          New York: Peter Lang. 2008


          Sturm, Damion. “Playing With the Autoethnographical Performing
          and Re-Presenting the Fan’s


          Voice.” /Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies /15.3
          (2015): 213-223. Print.


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