Digital Life Stories: Auto/Biography in the Information Age.

This paper is about 'digital life stories' as a new form of autobiography in the 'information age'. One of its aims is to argue that we have been living in the information age long enough for digital life stories to become a significant new form of narrative that reflects the social realities of everyday life under conditions of global complexity. It is argued that digital life stories constitute a new genre that is characterized by four key dimensions. These dimensions are analysed and placed in the context of lives lived in the information age and auto/biographical writing. Issues related to the identification and analysis of digital life stories are then considered. The paper concludes by exploring the implications of digital life stories for auto/biographical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]