[SDH/SEMI Members] Fwd: CFP on Identity Technologies

[Richard Cunningham]

Dear Digital Humanists / cher champs numeriquistes,

With apologies for cross-posting / avec l'apologies pour le duplication.

>
> 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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