[Commlist] call for papers "La valle dell'Eden" #35

CALL FOR PAPERS


# 35

June – December 2019



*East of Eden/La Valle dell’Eden – New seriesJournal of Cinema, 
Photography, Media *

*Director*: Grazia Paganelli (Museo Nazionale del Cinema)

*Editors:* Giaime Alonge (Università di Torino), Giulia Carluccio 
(Università di Torino), Luca Malavasi (Università di Genova), Federica 
Villa (Università di Pavia).

*Advisory board*:Paolo Bertetto (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), 
Francesco Casetti (Yale University), Richard Dyer (King’s College 
London), Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica “Sacro Cuore” di Milano), 
Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), Giacomo Manzoli (Università di 
Bologna), Enrico Menduni (Università di Roma 3), Catherine O’Rawe 
(University of Bristol), Peppino Ortoleva (Università di Torino), 
Guglielmo Pescatore (Università di Bologna), Francesco Pitassio 
(Università di Udine), Jacqueline Reich (Fordham University), Rosa Maria 
Salvatore (Università di Padova), Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne 
Nouvelle Paris III), Pierre Sorlin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 
3), Veronica Pravadelli (Univeristà di Roma 3).


*Editorial board*:Silvio Alovisio (Università di Torino), Alessandro 
Amaducci (Università di Torino), Luca Barra, (Università di Bologna), 
Claudio Bisoni (Università di Bologna), Gabriele D’Autilia (Università 
di Teramo), Raffaele De Berti (Università di Milano), Ilaria De Pascalis 
(Università di Bologna), Damiano Garofalo (Università di Roma “La 
Sapienza”), Michele Guerra (Università di Parma), Ilario Meandri 
(Università di Torino), Andrea Minuz (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), 
Emiliano Morreale (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Mariapaola Pierini 
(Università di Torino), Franco Prono (Università di Torino), Chiara 
Simonigh (Università di Torino), Andrea Valle (Università di Torino).

*Editorial staff:*Lorenzo Donghi (Università di Pavia), Riccardo Fassone 
(Università di Torino), Giuliana Galvagno (Università di Torino), 
Ismaela Goss (Università di Genova), Andrea Mattacheo (Università di 
Torino), Matteo Pollone (Università di Torino), Gabriele Rigola 
(Università di Torino), Hamilton Santià (Università di Torino), Jacopo 
Tomatis (Università di Torino), Sara Tongiani (Università di Genova), 
Deborah Toschi (Università di Pavia).


*Editorial staff coordination:*

Cristina Colet (Università di Torino), Giulia Muggeo (Università di Torino).


*Self Media Studies*

*Self-image from social networking to big data*

Edited by Federica Villa


The relevance of self portraiture and autobiographical practices implied 
in our condition of technological subjects leads to an unavoidable shift 
in understanding media experiences. The jagged geography of  the Self in 
image has extended its reach to the point of reorienting media theory 
from mass media to self media, thus prefiguring a veritable paradigm 
shift: whereas once media were analyzed as sites of articulation of 
cultural and identitary figures found within a community, or tools to 
promote habits, rituals, common experiences, both normative and 
participative, top-down or bottom-up, it is now increasingly more common 
to analyze the ways in which the Self is externalized in media.

This special issue of “La Valle dell’Eden” aims at reflecting on the 
process of externalization of the Self in contemporary media 
technologies. This reflection pivots around three ways in which the 
relation between subjects and media has come to define itself. After a 
first wave of self-media, centered around new technologies used to say 
the self (e.g. social networking sites), the second phase revolved 
around using media as self-saying (self narratives). Finally, and more 
recently, media themselves acted as generators of self-representations, 
by saying, in our stead, of our selves (quantified-self tracking).

Cinema profoundly interacts with this change of paradigm, being at the 
same time a witness and an agent of this substantial phenomenon that we 
can label as “autoconfiguration of Self through technology”. On the one 
hand, there are many films that deal with the topic of digital identity. 
On the other hand, the film image becomes more and more a site of 
experimentation, a tool to create forms of self-communication and 
self-visualization, in connection with social practices.

The issue will be focused on two main questions:

A)from a theoretical perspective, we want to study the current shift to 
Self Media Studies, in connection to specific issues, such as memory, 
identity, care, tecno-ethics;

B)from an analytical perspective, we want to produce a map of this 
phenomenon, with a particular focus on the areas of big data and digital 
identities




*Referees*

Every paper will be read at least by two non blind referees, who will 
evaluate and discuss the essays both with their authors and the 
editorial board. The referees will be either members of the advisory 
board, the editorial board or the editorial staff, or scholars not 
linked to the journal, both Italian and foreigner. This way, /La Valle 
dell’Eden/East of Eden/ chooses a system of open review, in the 
perspective of a broad and agile discussion with contributors, in order 
to promote a non ritual and not too long review process, with a frank 
and productive dialogue between the authors and the journal.

*Submission and deadline*

Interested authors should submit a 500-word abstract by *February 28* to 
*Federica Villa* ((federica.villa /at/ unipv.it) 
<mailto:(federica.villa /at/ unipv.it)>) and *(eden /at/ unito.it) 
<mailto:(eden /at/ unito.it)>*. The first draft of the accepted article (max 
4.000/5.000 words) is expected to be submitted by *May 31*.  Abstracts 
and papers both in English or Italian will be considered.


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