Ego-Media is five-year project funded by the European Research Council to assess the impact of digital and social media upon the practices and experiences of life writing and related modes of ego narrative.
It uses a combination of life writing theory and new media theory (including the notion of the networked self), participant observation of blogs, vlogs, social media and emergent sites, and interviews and discussions with selected online users.
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Ego-Media in China
Ego-Media colleagues recently traveled to present research from the ERC-funded project to colleagues at the World Auto/Biography Centre at Peking University in Beijing, and at the ‘Literary Biography and Others’ Conference hosted by the Biographical Society at Sichuan University in Chengdu. Members of the team traveled first to Beijing to
Dr Rachael Kent interviewed by BBC on the value of Facebook
Dr Rachael Kent recently spoke to BBC World News about how Facebook users assess its value as a social media platform.
Professor Clare Brant speaks about diaries at the British Library
Ego-Media’s Professor Clare Brant spoke at and participated in the British Library’s recent study day ‘Exploring Diaries: 1660-2019‘ on her research into ‘Diaries and the digital age’. View the full programme here.