Please note there was a typo in the previous call for papers. The deadline
is July 15, not June 15.
Original below (with updated deadline):
Recently, the autobiographical writings of a cancer survivor - written over
the period of several years, and ending recently with her death - were
revealed to be an elaborate fiction. The journal began with a young woman
creating a new identity for herself and took off from there.
When it was suggested this identity may have been fabricated, several loyal
readers were up in arms defending her existence, having received email from
her, or talked to her on the phone. It was revealed the she had her daughter
take on the role of this identity for phonecalls, and wrote a supporting
journal as her 'mother' - a mother scared she would lose her daughter at any
time.
Many, as a result of incidents like this, have questioned the very fabric of
'reality' in new media. This event has prompted us here at nasty to question
how the (auto)biographical sense of self is created, explored and ultimately
exploited in the new media. Can we liken the above to Jamaica Kincaid's _My
Brother_, or Gertrude Stein's _The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas_, or
does New Media create a much more sinister landscape, exploiting the
gullibility of its readership?
We invite academic articles and editorials on how forms of new media, such
as weblogs, online forums, internet chat and video games, explore how we
view ourselves, how we interact with others, and how we create our own
personal and social identities.
Submissions should be emailed in Word format to submissions@nasty.cx.
Deadline: July 15th, 2001.
,+"+, darren james harkness, publisher
' `+,_,+' nasty ( http://nasty.cx )
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