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=Call for Papers: Self-Absorption, or the Technologies of the Mutliphrenic Self= Papers are invited for a conference at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on **28 July** on the issue of postmodern identity. The aim of the conference is to use recent theories of social sciences to analyze the effects of modern communication technologies upon our own abilities to operate in the realm of primary groups. As such, papers will analyze the viability of individuals to develop identities on the basis of their involvement in primary groups in a time defined by the production of the postmodern self (i.e., the process of social saturation, the populating of the self, and the problem of multiphrenia). Analyses will draw upon personal experience, the work of Kenneth Gergen, and up-to-date research in the social sciences. Papers of 1000-1250 words must make a research supported claim about the relationship between your own personal experience of self and Gergen's position on the postmodern, multiphrenic saturation of self brought on by newly emerging technologies. Papers must be grounded in academic research and adhere to APA (American Psychological Association) documentation style. Papers must be written for a academic audience. Please submit a rough draft of your paper on **22 July** for conventional peer review and a final draft of your paper on **28 July** for blind peer review. =Getting Up to Speed= Get up to speed on the social scientific discussion of "self" by reading three essays in Beedles and Petracca: "Primary Groups," by Charles Horton Cooley (37-41); "The Presentation of Self," by Irving Goffman (42-49); and "The Dissolution of Self," by Kenneth Gergen (50-58) For support in learning how to
 * engage in the research process, refer to Rosen 125-39 (The Research Process)
 * synthesize sources, refer to Rosen 163-76 (Synthesis)
 * an analysis, refer to Rosen 306-24 (Analysis, Chapter 23)
 * write in the social sciences, refer to Rosen, "Writing in the Social Sciences" (228-33)
 * use the APA  documentation style, refer to Rosen, Part V ( 195-211 )

A Note on Blind Peer Review
Papers submitted for blind peer review should contain no self-identity information: e.g., name, social security number, etc. =Questions about the CFP=
 * 1) What does the teacher mean by up-to-date research?
 * 2) How do you know if a source is reliable?
 * 3) Why is incorporating personal experience valid in a social science paper?
 * 4) Hasn't technology always impacted primary groups?
 * 5) What is postmodern? What is modernity?
 * 6) What is multiphrenic social-saturation?