Abstract
Increasingly, people are using digital media such as YouTube to share their lives with others, constructing their life narratives and identities in the process.These online life-writing practices are extensions of diary writing, and they constitute contemporary forms of autobiography. Like traditional autobiography,people publish material about themselves, making it available to the public, but these digital modes of self-representation present particular challenges to life-narrative scholars and are vulnerable in specific ways.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 409-411 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | a/b: Auto/Biography Studies |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- digital media
- online social networks
- information society
- internet videos
- autobiography