[ecrea] Cfp: Semiotics of Selfies

*Call for papers***

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/Semiotics of Selfies///

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Special issue of /Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics///

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Editor: /Gregory Paschalidis///

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In/CameraLucida/RolandBarthessuggeststhatthe“ageofPhotographycorrespondspreciselytothe 
explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of 
a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private 
is consumed as such publicly”. What he had in mind was the 
aggressiveinvasionoftheprivacyofcelebritiesbypressphotographers.Theadventofdigitaltechnology 
took the “age of Photography” to new heights, while simultaneously 
fostering the “explosion of the private into the public” to an 
unprecedented scale. This time, however, the paparazzi were virtually 
everyone.Inthelastdecadeselfieshavebecomeperhapsthemostwidespreadgenreofthenewlyborn 
digital culture. At the same time, it is certainly the most notorious, 
being regularly associated with rampant narcissism and addictive 
self-promotion. Having unmistakable continuities with the time- honoured 
tradition of the self-portrait, both in painting and in photography, 
selfies became an arena where new visual vocabularies and strategies of 
self-representation have developed, bringing a new 
urgencytoPeirce’sideaof“theselfasasign”.

Thisspecialissueof/Punctum/aimstocontributetotheinvestigationandunderstandingoftheselfiesas 
asemioticpracticebyencouragingtheexaminationofitsculturaldynamicsinallitsdiverseformsand 
contexts,fromitsvernacularversionsinsocialnetworksandcelebritywebpages,totheeverexpanding 
range of its appropriations by marketing and branding, artists and 
educators, social and political activists.

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 300 words 
by mail to Gregory 
Paschalidis((_paschagr /at/ jour.auth).gr_)includingtheiraffiliationandcontactinformation.Acceptanceof 
the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all research 
articles will be put through the journal’s peer reviewprocess.

*_Timeline_***

Deadlineforabstracts:*June20,2018***

Notification of acceptance of the abstract: *June 30, 2018 *Deadline for 
submission of full papers: *September 15, 2018 *Reviewers’ report: 
*November 1,2018***

Final revised papers due: *December 1, 2018***

Publication: *Volume 4, Number 2 (December 2018)***




PUNCTUM. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS



Punctum (www.punctum.gr ) is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal 
dedicated to the semiotic study of contemporary cultural texts, 
practices and processes, published under the auspices of the Hellenic 
Semiotic Society. Aspiring to provide a venue for the advancement of 
international semiotic scholarship, the journal is published twice a 
year (July & December) in English, although submissions in French and 
German will be accepted as well. Punctum’s Editorial Board reflects both 
its international scope and the diversity of contemporary semiotic 
research and theory. Punctum invites submissions (original papers, 
review articles, book reviews) across this wide range of semiotic fields 
and methodologies on an on- going basis, and regularly puts out calls 
for special issues with guest editors.
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