G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you (featuring Noah, @horse_ebooks, and Vladimir Putin): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 June 2014 M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue three in volume seventeen of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 'persona' - Edited by P. David Marshall, Christopher Moore, and Kim Barbour In the contemporary moment where aspects of our lives are rendered visible for display, circulation and exchange via our involvement in online cultures, investigating the concept of persona and the production of the networked self is critical to understanding the patterns and flows of everyday and extraordinary public identities. Persona is usually perceived as a mask of identity, something that clouds and occludes a truer or raw version of ourselves, or thought of in a Goffman-like way as a form of "role-playing" and "impression management". The production of persona can therefore be seen as something strategic, something essential to the modern experience, and ultimately something that is filled with affect and agency as the individual both constructs and inhabits these public identity formations. Persona inhabits a space between the fictive and the real and has been explored as constitutive of what it means to be human/citizen (Cicero), what constitutes consistency of character (literary persona), what allows a public figure to negotiate a surveilled life (celebrity persona or an artistic persona), and even what kind of avatar/identity and presentation of the self is presented in play and the broader structures of social interaction and participation in game cultures (gamer persona) and fandoms. Circulating through the meaning of persona are some utopian ideals of reputation, recognition, value, and integrity that have moved to higher prominence in the contemporary moment where culture has been both individualised and personalised. =========================================================================== Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal 17.3 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit M/C Journal and M/C Reviews at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All contributors are available for media contacts: mc@media-culture.org.au. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal Vol. 17, No. 3 (2014) - 'persona' Table of Contents http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/persona Editorial -------- Persona to Persona Studies Kim Barbour, P. David Marshall, Christopher Moore Feature -------- Seriality and Persona P David Marshall Articles -------- Darkly Dreaming (in) Authenticity: The Self/Persona Opposition in Dexter Glenn D'Cruz Persons and Their Private Personas: Living with Yourself Talia Morag Online Persona as Hybrid-Object: Tracing the Problems and Possibilities of Persona in the Short Film Noah Neil James Henderson A Mirror without a Tain: Personae, Avatars, and Selves in a Multi-User Virtual Environment Lesley Procter About a Bot: Hoax, Fake, Performance Art Taina Bucher Digital Traces of the Persona through Ten Years of Facebook Brady Robards What’s in a Nym? Gender, Race, Pseudonymity, and the Imagining of the Online Persona Ellen Moll Home, About, Shop, Contact: Constructing an Authorial Persona via the Author Website Emma Maguire From Activist to Entrepreneur: Peace One Day and the Changing Persona of the Social Campaigner Nathan Farrell The Charismatic Persona of Colonel Qaddafi Sally Totman, Mat Hardy How Vladimir Putin’s Divorce Story Was Constructed and Received, or When the President Divorced His Wife and Married the Country Instead Anastasia Denisova -- M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ ARC Future Fellow, 2014-17 http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J