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Global Ipseology - Call for Chapter Proposals

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Global Ipseology

The editor - Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones - invites you to contribute to Global Ipseology. Ipseology is the study of ipseity (selfhood, individuality and the elements of identity) at scale. Ipseologists examine human selves using large datasets and quantitative methods. Scholars may now conduct global ipseological analysis by using HINENI: Human Identities across Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator.

Global Ipseology (the book) will be a peer-reviewed, edited volume of strongly-templated, data-driven chapters from independent authors. Chapter authors must be interested in exploring how social media users varied the language of their self-authored self-descriptions over time and space.

The volume will be published on the Web as diamond open access - no Article Processing Charge and no paywall. Hardcover and ebook versions will be available to the public for purchase. Authors are required to place their work under a CC-BY 4.0 license.

The purpose of this call is to gauge interest. To express interest in authoring a chapter, please send a proposal to jason.j.jones@stonybrook.edu in the following format:

Proposals - Format

Proposals must be in this format:
Signifier(s): Words, phrases and/or emojis you wish to investigate. A list of one to four signifiers.
Nation(s): Choose one or two nations from HINENI.
Email your proposal (with subject Global Ipseology Proposal) on or before July 31, 2025.

Next steps

Selected proposals will be invited to join the volume. Selected authors will receive tabular results from Dr. Jones regarding their signifiers and nations and addressing these research questions:

  • In nation(s), how did the incidence and prevalence of signifier(s) change from 2012 through 2023?
  • Which other words were most and least likely to accompany each signifier (per nation and year)?
  • Which other words predicted the addition or deletion of a signifier? If deleted, which words most commonly replaced the signifier?
  • Among newly-joining users each year, what were the absolute and relative rates of including the signifier(s) per nation?

Dr. Jones will provide quantitative, tabular results; chapter authors are expected to visualize, interpret and discuss the results independently.

Updates

: Call posted to my Ipseology Blog.

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