Life Narrative and the Digital

Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field

Bibliographic Data

ID22024607
AuthorsTimo Frühwirth (0000-0002-3997-5193, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Sandra Mayer (0000-0002-2915-5888, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Year2025
Volume14
PagesLDi-LDxi
Publication date2025-07-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Life Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-243X • E-ISSN: 2211-243X
PublisherUniversity of Groningen Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.21827/ejlw.14.42759
OpenAlexW4412036028
LanguageEN
References cited2

This cluster emerged from a two-day international workshop and conference, “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023”, which took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in September 2023, and which was aimed at stimulating a conversation on the ‘possibilities, uses, and challenges of digital methods and technologies for auto/biographical research and practice.’ The contributions assembled in this cluster continue, and in many ways intensify, such an inter- and multi-disciplinary exchange between life-writing scholarship and digitally-oriented research. Taken together, they offer a panoramic vision of the diverse, and often highly innovative, scholarly work that is situated at the crossroads of auto/biography studies and digital technologies. They highlight the rich spectrum of source types, (cultural, historical, and geographical) contexts, methodological approaches, and themes that characterise this field of investigation, from (co-)constructing and (re-)presenting life narratives via social media and computer games to applying digital tools and methods that aid the study of lives and/or life writing. The cluster makes a timely contribution to an increasingly vibrant area of research that bridges traditional and digital humanities

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Visual arts · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Mathematics

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