[Air-L] FW: [MCJ] M/C Journal 'persona' Issue Now Online

[Axel Bruns]

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.

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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
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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.
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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
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Persona to Persona Studies
	Kim Barbour,	P. David Marshall,	Christopher Moore


Feature
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Seriality and Persona
	P David Marshall


Articles
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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


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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 at qut.edu.au
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