Dear Colleagues, I am co-ordinating a conference workshop and seeking a volunteer to act as Chairperson for the session, I am also calling for papers. The theme of the session is: Performing Troubling and Troubled Identities Online: Towards Freedom or Formula? The workshop is part of the "Troubled Identities" Conference at Aarhaus, Denmark, January 19-20, 2012. Full details are here: http://sociologikongres.au.dk/en/workshop-sessions/performing-troubled-and-t... "This workshop aims to examine the manner in which a complex array of identities – political, cultural, social, and particularly marginal and extreme – are managed and expressed in the online sphere. It seeks to gauge the impact or influence of such sites of identity performance and how the online space itself might serve to advance or hinder the expression of identities which may manifest themselves primarily in this realm. The session will also re-examine the original ideas (e.g. Turkle 1999) concerning the performance of online identity with allied questions about public/private, legality, censorship, ‘net neutrality’, hate speech, social movements and the interaction of media, Internet and society. Potential contributions could be drawn from studies of: - extreme political movements - end of life/suicide forums - diverse sexuality - deviance - anarchism - art as protest" if you would like to act as chair, please contact me as soon as you can. The deadline for abstracts is December 16. Thank you, Paul -- *Paul Candon, **PhD Candidate, **Dept of Sociology School of Social Sciences & Philosophy * *Trinity College, University of Dublin* *3 College Green Dublin 2* *Republic of Ireland* *353 (0)86 8842113*