[Air-L] CFP SpecialIssue on Shame, Shaming, and Online ImageSharing

Tue Feb 4 04:00:44 PST 2020

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*Special Issue **on Shame, Shaming, and Online Image Sharing to be
published by First Monday*

Editors: Gaby David, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 and Amparo
Lasen, Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

*Call for papers *

We are preparing a special issue for the open-access journal First Monday
on the topic of shame and shaming around the practices of sharing images
online.

Vernacular mobile images are the visual intersection of everyday life and
popular culture, taken, viewed on and/or shared from mobile devices. They
are the building blocks of our visual co-construction of reality. But, what
can the experiences of shame and shaming related to practices of sharing
more or less intimate vernacular mobile images indicate about our digitally
connected societies and about contemporary subjectivities?

Shame is an ordinary affect, a key emotion regarding sociability and social
orderings, as it is elicited by the fear of disconnection from our actual
social bonds or the ones we aspire to be part of. It is a mode of affecting
and being affected that shapes and mobilises ordinary experiences and
relationships, and it is narrowly linked to social orderings and social
structuration and exclusion processes. Shame points to how norms are fixed,
maintained and challenged, to what is appropriate and what is not, who is
appropriate and who isn’t. Shaming others, a common online practice is also
a way of reinforcing these same social orderings and senses.

In this issue, we would like to explore how shame, shaming, and
embarrassment are involved in the production of disquiets, vulnerabilities
and exclusions in mediated intimacies and gender choreographies sustained
and deployed through the convergence of camera phones, social networks, and
mobile apps. Contemporary online visual practices are haunted by shame. As
our mobile visual performances and exposure make us run the risk of
becoming inappropriate and make our becoming risky when we are already
deemed as inappropriate.

We aim at analysing concepts such as visibility, public and private, the
digital modulation of presence and of intimacy, shame and share, and its
relations to normativity, surveillance, and sousveillance. In times of data
mining and Artificial Intelligence, reflections on the epistemology of
coupled values such as ‘sharing and shaming’ must be on the research
agenda. An awareness and analysis of the sharing-shaming duo surely
contribute to the understanding of digital practices and habits. In
theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches, this special issue does
not seek to describe the benefits, motivations and/or risks on why banal
everyday life mobile vernacular images should remain private and/or public
but interrogate both the situations behind these vernacular mobile imagery
sharing when shame is elicited, as well as when individual or collective
shaming initiatives arise in response to such images.

Personal and/or collective decisions to share private content or be ashamed
of doing so, have multiple and complex and interrelated correlations. We
encourage contributions from diverse fields that may include (but are not
limited to) visual sociology, digital ethnography, fine art, gender
studies, internet studies, mobile studies, cultural studies, pop culture,
and game/play studies.

We are also considering the publication of another journal special issue on
this same topic in an academic Spanish or Latin-American journal, if some
of you are interested in contributing with a paper written in Spanish,
please contact us.

*Keywords: digital images, share, shame, shaming, ethics.*

*Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:*

●        Share and shame: Theories, concepts, and methods

●        Histories of particular Internet shame-share stories

●        Analysis of the implications of shame share histories for
international and global discussions of Internet histories, forms, and
futures.

●        Case studies of shame, sharing and online visual practices

●        Co-evolution of sharing, shaming and Internet technology

●        Gender performances and choreographies related to shame and online
shaming

●        Race, shame and online shaming

●        Mediated sexualities

●        Historiographies of cyber shame, cyberslutting, online bullying,
racism, sexism.

●        Mobile Internet, mobile apps, share and shame

●        Digital cultures, memes, humour, and irony

●        Shame, values and online social imaginaries

●        Internet celebrity, shame, and share

●        Shamelessness

●        Porn, share, and shame

*References*

Ahmed, S. (2004). *The Cultural Politics of Emotion*. Edinburgh University
Press. (Ch. 5).

Belk, R. (2010). Sharing. *Journal of Consumer Research*, Vol. 36, No. 5,
pp. 715-734 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jhm/Readings/612649.pdf

John, N. (2102). Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword, *New
Media & Society* 15(2), 167-182,
https://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/nicholasjohn/files/sharing_and_web_2.0_nms_john_print_version.pdf

 Lasén, A. (2004). Affective technologies: emotions and mobile phones.
*Receiver,* Vol. 11.
https://robertoigarza.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/art-affective-technologiese28093emotionsmobile-phones-lasen-2006.pdf

Martin, C., & von Pape, T. (2012) (Eds.). *Images in mobile communication:
New content, new uses, new persp*ectives. Wiesbaden: VS-Verl.

Probyn, E. (2005) *Blush. Faces of Shame*. Minneapolis, University of
Minnesota Press.

Scheff, T. (2014) The ubiquity of hidden shame in Modernity. Cultural
Sociology, vol. 8(2), 129-141.

Stewart, K. (2007) *Ordinary Affects*. Duke University Press.

If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, please send an
abstract (300 words) by 4 March 2020. Abstracts should be sent to one of
the two editors, Amparo Lasen (alasen at ucm.es) Gaby David (
championnet4 at yahoo.fr). Please, do contact us if you have any inquiries or
need further information.

Invitations to a possible contribution will be sent by 15 March 2020

Full final papers deadline 1 September 2020

All the best

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Amparo Lasén
Dpto Sociología Aplicada
UCM
@Amparo
www.sociologiaordinaria.com
http://ucm.academia.edu/AmparoLasén

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