Call for Articles: A _Biography_ Special Issue
"Online Lives"
The January 2003 issue of _Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ will feature critical essays on how auto/biography and other forms of life writing are engaging the Internet, hypertext, digital multimedia, and the immersive interactive environments of MOOs, virtual worlds, and role-playing games. Guest editor John Zuern seeks contributions that address topics such as personal home pages, online diaries and web logs, web-based genealogical research and family histories, the stability and/or flux of identity in virtual communities, and the creative use of webcams and other surveillance and tracking technologies for self-representation.
Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, as well as explorations of the theoretical, methodological, and ethical challenges of studying online lives are particularly encouraged.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and ideally between 3,000 and 10,000 words. A double-blind submission policy will be followed; the author's name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the author's name and address.
Consultation on manuscript ideas is welcomed.
Deadline for receipt of entries: September 1, 2002.
For more information, or to submit an entry, contact
Center for Biographical Research,
University of Hawai'i at Mänoa,
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 USA
Tel./Fax: (808) 956-3774
biograph@hawaii.edu