That Different Place: Documenting the Self Within Online Environments
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Biography
- Vol. 26 (1) , 48-65
- https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2003.0026
Abstract
This article is based on a very straightforward question: what are the differences between conventional handwritten diaries and the online diaries that are increasingly appearing on the World Wide Web? I argue that an important aspect of the differences lie in the experimental and material conditions of the Web itself.Keywords
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