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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.

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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.

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Clare Brant

Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Rob Gallagher

Lecturer in Digital Media Industries (E&R)

Lisa  Gee

Visiting Research Fellow

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics

Rachael Kent

Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education

Projects

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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.

    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

    Diaries 2.0

    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

    People

    Clare Brant

    Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

    Rob Gallagher

    Lecturer in Digital Media Industries (E&R)

    Lisa  Gee

    Visiting Research Fellow

    Alexandra Georgakopoulou

    Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics

    Rachael Kent

    Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education

    Projects

    Ego Media logo
    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.

      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

      Diaries 2.0

      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

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