Amy Carlson

Reading Mediated Life Narratives (eBook, PDF)

Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Calling attention to the unseen mediation and re-mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this ground-breaking exploration uncovers the ever-changing strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in these texts. Concentrating on contemporary life texts found in the material book, museums, on social media and archives that present perceptions of individuality and autonomy, Reading Mediated Life Narratives exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives. Amy Carlson asks such questions as what agents act upon these narratives; what do the text, the creator, and the audience gain, and what do they lose; how do constantly evolving technologies shape or stymie the auto/biographical "I"; and finally, how do the mediations affect larger issues of social and collective memory?

An examination of the range of sites at which vulnerability and intervention can occur, Carlson does not condemn but stages an intercession, showing us how it is increasingly necessary to register mediated agents and processes modifying the witnessing or recuperation of original texts that could condition our reception. With careful thought on how we remember, how we create and control our pictures, voices, words, and records, Reading Mediated Life Narratives reveals how we construct and negotiate our social identities and memories, but also what systems control us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350324671
• Artikelnr.: 69537244

Autorenporträt

Amy Carlson is Serials Librarian and Head of Collection Services Division, University Hawai'i at Manoa Library, USA. She has published several articles in The Serials Librarian. Her research focuses on how materiality, reformatting, access, and use accentuate or limit experiences with texts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Tale of Two Selfie Books
1. Mediated Voices and Constructed Bodies
2. Museum Spaces, Experiential Mediation, and Life Writing
3. Spreading Automedia
4. Automedia is the Message
5. Archives Telling Stories, Recording Lives
Conclusion: Attentions Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Index