Ego-Media (2014-2019) studied the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It analysed how autobiographical forms and discursive practices were being transformed at the frontier of technological change; and considered the implications of the new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. Based in the interdisciplinary Centre for Life-Writing Research in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London, it combined a humanistic, life-writing theory approach with interdisciplinary methodologies, in collaboration with researchers from English, Sociolinguistics, Psychiatry, Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, and others.
People
Professor Max Saunders was Ego Media's Principal Investigator. He was joined by Professor Clare Brant, who with Max co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research, socio-linguist Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Professor Leone Ridsdale as Co-Investigators.
Projects

What we did
Ego Media comprised an ecosystem of diverse, interdisciplinary projects instigated by the PI, the Co-Is, 3 Post-Doctoral Research Associates and 4 PhD students.
Avatars, Alter Egos and Ventriloquists' Dummies: Voice and Vicariousness Online
Dr Rob Gallagher's work on the Ego-Media Project
Black boxes
Dr Rebecca Roach reflects on the emergence of the metaphor of the 'black box' in our computational era and some of its real world consequences.
Diaries 2.0
Professor Clare Brant's work on Diaries for the Ego-Media Project, focusing on the exhibition Dear Diary which ran at Somerset House 26 May - 07 July 2017.
Ego Media Project bibliography
List of relevant works published by the Ego-Media Project Team
Ego Media Timeline
A timeline combining developments in new media and associated technologies, key events relevant to the Ego Media project's work and chronology.
Interactions with health-related information online in people with migraine and epilepsy
Prof Leone Ridsdale & Dr Alison McKinlay reflect on their Ego-Media Project research nto how people with migraine or epilepsy interact with online media.
Life Online Today & Tomorrow
Recordings of talks and discussions run by the Ego-Media Project between 2015-2017.
Analysing online expression affordances on IRC and Twitter
Avatars, Alter Egos and Ventriloquists' Dummies: Voice and Vicariousness Online
Black Boxes
Imaginative Agency
Interactions with Health-Related Information Online in People with Migraine and Epilepsy
Life and War Writing, Off and Online
Life online today & tomorrow
Researching the narrative construction of mummy vlogger influencers
Self-Observation Online
Sharing-life-in-the-moment as small stories: Participation, social relations and subjectivity
Talking Interfaces
The Use of Self-Tracking Technologies and Social Media in Self-Representation & Management of Health
To-Day & To-Morrow Online
Projects

What we did
Ego Media comprised an ecosystem of diverse, interdisciplinary projects instigated by the PI, the Co-Is, 3 Post-Doctoral Research Associates and 4 PhD students.
Avatars, Alter Egos and Ventriloquists' Dummies: Voice and Vicariousness Online
Dr Rob Gallagher's work on the Ego-Media Project
Black boxes
Dr Rebecca Roach reflects on the emergence of the metaphor of the 'black box' in our computational era and some of its real world consequences.
Diaries 2.0
Professor Clare Brant's work on Diaries for the Ego-Media Project, focusing on the exhibition Dear Diary which ran at Somerset House 26 May - 07 July 2017.
Ego Media Project bibliography
List of relevant works published by the Ego-Media Project Team
Ego Media Timeline
A timeline combining developments in new media and associated technologies, key events relevant to the Ego Media project's work and chronology.
Interactions with health-related information online in people with migraine and epilepsy
Prof Leone Ridsdale & Dr Alison McKinlay reflect on their Ego-Media Project research nto how people with migraine or epilepsy interact with online media.
Life Online Today & Tomorrow
Recordings of talks and discussions run by the Ego-Media Project between 2015-2017.
Analysing online expression affordances on IRC and Twitter
Avatars, Alter Egos and Ventriloquists' Dummies: Voice and Vicariousness Online
Black Boxes
Imaginative Agency
Interactions with Health-Related Information Online in People with Migraine and Epilepsy
Life and War Writing, Off and Online
Life online today & tomorrow
Researching the narrative construction of mummy vlogger influencers
Self-Observation Online
Sharing-life-in-the-moment as small stories: Participation, social relations and subjectivity
Talking Interfaces
The Use of Self-Tracking Technologies and Social Media in Self-Representation & Management of Health
To-Day & To-Morrow Online
