The Key to Immortality: The Internet and a Funny Cat?

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Throughout the semester we have identified many ways in which people document their lives online. Whether it is through blogging, tweeting, or creating an album on Facebook—in today’s increasingly digitized world more and more people are publishing personal content for the masses. Many of the scholarly articles that we have worked with in our class’ focus on life narrative explore the motivations behind these practices. Miller and Shepard in their analysis of the weblog, for instance, point to peoples’ increasingly voyeuristic inclinations—suggesting that people produce and consume personal content as a means of vicariously…read more