With no information about who the publisher is/might be. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________ On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:57:52 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [mobile-society] Call for chapters: new technologies of the self, > mobilities and (co-)contruction of identities (1.3.2008) > > Hello all, > > Here is a CFP for a book on mobility. > > Rich L. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fred dervin > Sent: 21. desember 2007 23:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Air-L] Call for chapters: new technologies of the self, mobilities > and (co-)contruction of identities (1.3.2008) > > Call for chapters > > (Deadline for abstracts: 1.3.2008) > > > ***************************************************************** > > New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity > > > Edited by: > > Fred Dervin, Senior Lecturer, > Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Finland > (e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > & > Yasmine Abbas, > Doctor of Design, Harvard, USA > ReD Associates, Denmark > (e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Overall objectives of the book > > The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies > seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault > (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the > beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual¹s > self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its "disciples": be > they companions in Second Life, readers (for example on a blog) or > listeners (Podcasts). With high speed Internet access and increasingly > generous capacities of storage (mp3, USB keys, iPhone, portable > computers...), the opportunities for staging the self have become unlimited. > > The authors will explore aspects of the contributions of these new > technologies to the expression and (co-)construction of identitie(s) of > mobile individuals (physical and/or digital; short-term (expatriates, > businessmen, trainees, exchange students) and long-term (migrants, > refugees, exiles); inter-/intra- and/or transnational mobilities). Any > of the following issues can be addressed: > > - The specificities of (co-)constructions of the self through new > technologies. How do they contribute to presenting the self? > > - The potential differences between these technologies of the self and > more « traditional » ones. > > - What is said about the self? How? How is it constructed or staged? > With whom? For whom? And why? > > - Are there signs of manipulation of the self and identity collages? > > - What myths related to identity seem to emerge? > > - The position of the (real/fictive) interlocutor(s) and groups (cf. > peg-communities, Z. Bauman) in these constructions. > > - How is the other constructed? > > - What do visitors, readers, spectators or listeners seem to gain in > terms of reflections on their own identities? > > - Problems in using but also researching the new technologies of the > self (ethics, psychological effects, in terms of relationships, > interculturality). > > > Submission procedure > > Researchers and practitioners (from linguistics, sociology, > anthropology, psychology, education, IT) are invited to submit a > proposal (350 words) clearly explaining the mission, concerns of their > proposed chapter as well as a short description of the corpus (if they > plan on using one), the method of analysis and a basic bibliography by > March 1, 2008 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] The proposal > can be in English or French. > > The followings will also be provided with the proposal: Name(s), > affiliation, a few lines about the author(s), and a list of major > publications. > > Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2007. > > Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by September 1st, 2008. > > > cf. http://users.utu.fi/freder/appeltechno.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. 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