Virtual Identities and Self Promotion aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues surrounding creating a sense of self in online environments.

We invite submissions investigating and exploring virtual identity creation and self promotion, including but not limited to the ways in which users:
• Use social media to create identity professionally, personally, socially, academically
• Socially construct (gender, race, sex, etc) their identity in online environments including social media, and other online communities
• Use online technology in order to study language, communication, and identity construction
• Construct and reconstruct themselves in arenas promoting user-generated content, such as youtube
• Surveil, adapt, and/or censor their online identities and content, changing the nature of digital expression
• Create digital artifacts as a way of self discovery and identity construction
• Negotiate online identity with physical identity socially, professionally, and academically
• Use online interactions for validation of self, emotionally and/or intellectually
• Are affected by interface design in their online experiences as well as their identity

Please submit paper proposal abstracts online by December 15, 2011 to:

http://ncp.pcaaca.org/