Ego Media

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.

Members

Clare Brant

Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Rob Gallagher

Lisa Gee

Visiting Research Fellow

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics

Rachael Kent

Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education

Alison McKinlay

Leone Ridsdale

Professor

Rebecca Roach

Max Saunders

Visiting Professor

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.

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.