Persona Studies

Persona Studies Journal, investigating the presentation of self and masks we use, as we constantly construct versions of ourselves.

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Call for Papers: Persona and Inter(Face). Guest Editor Prof. Amanda du Preez (University of Pretoria) seeks papers exploring the intersection of face and interface as inter(faces) from an interdisciplinary stance. Abstract deadline 15 July, details here: https://t.co/1Jp7HSG2pi

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The article from Roman Lietz @ftsk_unimainz and @FergalLenehan @UniJena "Tweeting the World a Better Place: Motivations and Values Underpinning the Creation of a Digital Cosmopolitan Persona" in @PersonaStudies has been downloaded 2,227 times already! That's a lot of readers!

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Very pleased that the article "Tweeting the World a Better Place: Motivations and Values Underpinning the Creation of a Digital Cosmopolitan Persona" by Roman Lietz @ftsk_unimainz and @FergalLenehan @UniJena has been published in @PersonaStudies: https://t.co/iYcoSdPxbz

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@Mushira16 Hi, each piece in the rolling issue is published as it's completed! That means more pieces will be added to the issue over the course of the year.

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Interested in domesticity and persona? Then do we have the CfP for you! We're looking for papers and creative responses exploring the persona in domesticity. Abstracts (or full papers) by 29 April, all full papers due 15 August for peer review. More here: https://t.co/1Jp7HSX5ri

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@tessavannieuw Bonus - if you want to submit to the rolling issue, you can do so whenever! The submission details are on the website: https://t.co/1Jp7HSX5ri. (And if you're kicking yourself for missing the domesticity theme deadline, reach out - we can handle a late submission 😉)

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This year @PersonaStudies is launching rolling publication for open call papers. This allows timely publication of a diverse range of scholarship, and keeps the themed issues tightly focused. The rolling issue will be issue 3. 1/2

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To kick us off in 2022, vol. 8, no. 3 is up now with our first paper of the year: '“Dog boy, media whore. It’s who the hell you take me for”: Brian Molko’s curated music magazine persona in the fan archive' by @tessavannieuw. See the issue here: https://t.co/T6gUzoUYp1 2/2

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If ideas of identity in and around home spaces is your thing - whether mediated or not, in relation to the pandemic or not - then please submit an abstract or proposal to @PersonaStudies issue on Persona and Domesticity. Details linked here:

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Are you working on ideas of identity and the home? The Persona and Domesticity issue might be the home - check the full CFP here (and do reach out if the deadline is tricky for you - we can accommodate if we know it's coming!) https://t.co/1Jp7HSX5ri

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@ProfKate99 We think so! 😃

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/mg3f0LjV0X

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We're delighted to launch Vol 7 of the journal with the Diversifying Persona Studies conference special issue here: https://t.co/FxBVND201I, featuring 7 wonderful full length pieces from conference participants, edited by @kjbarbour, Katja Lee, and @CL_Moore.

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In our introductory editorial for the issue (here: https://t.co/s6psBJLgSk), we talk through the conference themes, and include links to the playlists where many of the papers and webinars are included.

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@travisaholland Direct link to paper: https://t.co/xsOJyhT5Co

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And the issue wraps with @travisaholland returning to the idea of a non-human, collectively constituted persona in: '“My battery is low and it's getting dark”
The Opportunity rover's collective persona': https://t.co/a0ovRtA2DB

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/tpIGMyfG41

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Penultimate paper 'Portrayal by Inappropriate Interaction: Persona meets persona in journalistic profiling' also looks at a poet, this time as represented by journalists. Read Steffen Moestrup and Christine Isager's piece here: https://t.co/5Lyzk2iaeR

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/o4aJ0DPmEo

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In 'The Involuntary Mask of the Poet: Examining the Evolution of the Poet Persona through P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh', Meghan P. Nolan considers the representation of a fictional Poet persona and its connection to how we understand who poets are: https://t.co/a2ogIgFeTd

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/iIifJtAuFl

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Next, Joni O Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung & Bernard J. Jansen dig hard into their own field, asking 'Are Data-Driven Personas Considered Harmful? Diversifying user understandings with more than algorithms': https://t.co/FeMhHphFxK

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/mI8noqOajE

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Third, @DrJessC unpacks one element of the persona(s) of Meghan Markle on her joining the British royal family, in 'A Commonwealth Princess? The instrumentalisation of Meghan Markle’s race to construct her royal persona': https://t.co/ykxor0oqS0

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@kjbarbour @CL_Moore @RobbieBoucaut Direct link to paper: https://t.co/FgvEG2fvFV

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@kjbarbour @CL_Moore Leading out the issue, we have 'Oscar: An Institutional and contested persona reading of the Academy Awards' by @RobbieBoucaut, exploring the persona(s) of a collectively constructed, non-human institution: https://t.co/fcjtOdFiKl

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Direct link to paper: https://t.co/owjEmYAelu

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The second piece comes from Michael Humphrey, who uses YouTube vlogs as a way into critiquing Hannah Arendt in 'The Social Oikos: Examining Arendt's concept of a public-private divide through the lens of a YouTube vlog': https://t.co/ypMKqdhsYr