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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.

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