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Subject: H-ASIA: Something completely different-Exploring Digital Narcissims


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> August 9, 2012
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> Now for something completely different: Call for papers:
> Reconstruction 13:2: Exploring Digital Narcissims
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> Ed note: Here is something from another part of the woods
> that constitute the Groves of Academe. I had not realized
> that there were good narcissims and bad ones, but one learns
> something every day. I had always thought that 'digital narcissim' was
> demonstrated in the arising of the blogosphere; what did I know?
> Perhaps editorial notes offers another outlet for a narcissm which
> is struggling to find a clean mirror? FFC
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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> Reconstruction 13.2: Exploring Digital Narcissisms
>
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-12-31
> Date Submitted: 2012-08-09
> Announcement ID: 196308
>
> Reconstruction 13.2: Exploring Digital Narcissisms
> For Freud, narcissism is the investment of libidinal energy redirected
> away from objects and toward the ego, whereas Lacan tells us it is a
> failure arising from the mirror stage precipitating a fruitless and
> perpetual search for the perfected image of the self. A "healthy"
> narcissism entails an optimal level of self-regard and esteem, whereas an
> "unhealthy" narcissism can lead to emotionally destructive consequences.
> In this way, the operative "borderline" between healthy ego formation and
> reactive defense of a fragile ego construct may, in fact, be more
> pronounced of an issue in the online environment where this struggle may
> find itself trans- or superimposed.
> One of the major shifts in web 2.0 has been the facilitation of more
> participatory content via social networking sites (SNSs) and news site
> fora, etc. User-generated communication, be it synchronous or asynchronous
> in nature, has allowed for more opportunities in the area of
> self-expression in the digital Umwelt. A raft of studies and popular books
> in the last few years have indicated a tentative connection between SNSs
> and an enabling function for narcissistic self-display, aggressive
> behaviour, and the desire to maximize social capital, particularly as
> endemic to the social software architecture that allows for promotionalism
> and self-boosterism online. In some cases, there is an argument to the
> effect that such online behaviours follow trends reminiscent of the
> clinical definition of narcissistic personality disorder such as
> possessing poor object relations, the social dependency versus extreme
> autonomic reliance paradox, aggressive and cathartic exchanges in the
> online venue, the fostering of shallow connections and tributary
> relations; and other ambient factors such as the marketization of the
> online ego-identity construct, the "arithmomania" of collection fetishism
> present in the quantifying of connections as social capital, and other
> issues that may arise in the tension between the Internet-mediated self
> and the environment in which it operates. On the more optimistic end of
> the debate, SNSs as a "liberation technology" are a source of facilitating
> niche-building, information flow, personal expression, and healthy ego
> development rather than pathological auto-scopophilia.
> We invite scholarly essays to explore the dynamism that may exist in the
> rise of social media with respect to changes in narcissistic behaviours
> and ego formation. How has the digital milieu shaped, or been shaped by,
> narcissisms? How does the online ego problematize the classic definitions
> of narcissism, in addition to making any diagnostic pronouncements on the
> basis of digital communication? Scholars are encouraged to draw from the
> literature on narcissism(s), including more classic formulations (Freudian
> and Lacanian), object relations (Kernberg et al) and self psychology
> (Kohut et al) schools of thought.
>
> Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to,
>
> Cyberpsychology and online ego-construction
> Digital Ego-play and self-esteem
> Object relations
> The web as externalized id or mass subconscious manifestation
> Cyberpragmatic analysis of interpersonal communication
> Psychoanalysis of digital behaviour
> Civilization and its (digital) discontents.
> Approval-seeking mechanisms
> The sociological and psychological understanding of liking, ranking, and
> tagging
>
> Please submit complete essays between now and Dec 31 to Kane Faucher
> (kfauche@uwo.ca). Inquiries of all kinds are also welcome.
>
> "Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an
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> influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction
> publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction
> is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography."
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