Deadline: July 31, 2020
Digital Selves
Embodiment and Co-Presence
in New Media Cultures in Central Europe and Eurasia
Guest editors:
Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto)
Tatiana Klepikova (University of Toronto)
Since the emergence of new media cultures, the theorization of the relationship between embodied positioning in space and our digital personas has evolved in new and significant directions. We have become increasingly aware of the forms of extended, multiple and fragmented selves that are made possible by internet and computer-facilitated settings. New media have championed previously unthinkable practices of self-representation necessitating a change in how researchers understand the virtual traces of our bodies online and the relationship between material bodies and physical spaces.
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