Human 2.0? Life-Writing in the Digital Age

Hayes P
Edited by:
Leader, Z

Web 2.0 has made it very easy to write online. Whereas Lejeune’s Web 1.0 bloggers needed at least some basic familiarity with internet programming to set up their sites and begin posting, Facebook enables anyone with a mouse and keyboard to set up their own slickly produced magazine-style webpage for free in a matter of minutes. And as this much more accessible interface took off, for many groups of people online life-writing ceased to be a wholly optional part of life, as it was for Lejeune’s bloggers.