I am certainly going to argue that it is.

Fred Dervin and Yasmine Abbas are editing a book entitled “New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)constructions of identities.” Here is a snip of the synopsis:

The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual’s self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its “disciples”… With high speed Internet access and increasingly generous capacities of storage… the opportunities for staging the self have become unlimited.

An email in my inbox was sent from Fred Dervin today to let me know that Yasmine had posted the list of chapter authors on her blog. Not to hold you in suspense, I am on the list. My work on craigslist Missed Connections will join what now looks like a fascinating group of authors and topics (read about the book and topics here).

The inclusion of my chapter is not exactly news to me (I found out last month), and those of you who follow my Twitter updates (or are subject to my Twitter updates following you) may remember a string of excited tweets when I received the news. At the time I was busy preparing my presentation for the URI conference, and so I postponed blogging the news until the list of authors had been published.

It appears that two editions on the book will be published: one in English, and one in French. So straight from my inbox to you, here is a list of authors for the English edition (links where readily available):

• Abbas Yasmine, Doctor of Design, Harvard; ReD Associates (Denmark)
• Binark Multu, Ba?kent University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio-Television and Cinema, Ankara, Turkey
• Brubaker Jed R., Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University, USA
• Dervin Fred, University of Turku, Finland
• De Vries Katja (PhD student at the Free University of Brussels)
• Günseli Bayraktutan-Sütcü, Ba?kent University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Public Relations Ankara, Turkey
• Mauco Olivier, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne (CNRS, UMR 8057), France
• O’Reagan Michael, School of Service Management, University of Brighton, UK
• Vaucelle Cati, MIT Media Lab, USA

For tonight, I am most excited about the prospect of meeting some of the other authors (digitally or otherwise… how appropriate for this book) and hearing about their particular take on technological constructions of the self.