Laura Marcus Workshop: Datafied Lives: Life-Writing, Publishing, and the Archive in the Digital Age
Join OCLW for the first of this term’s Laura Marcus Workshops.

Once we get beyond the clichés about oversharing and privacy online, what does it mean to write a life in the digital age? What impacts do publishers, platforms, and publics have on the way life-writing appears to us today? This session will consider the longer history of digital life-writing, as well as exploring changes to our notion of a writer’s archive, and the challenges posed to literary writing when a life can be reduced to a stream of data.

The workshop leaders will be Adam Guy and Sarah Ogilvie, convened by Kate Kennedy.

Participants should come prepared to think about any aspect of life-writing in relation to online publishing, social media, digitising of archives, online platforms.
Date: 2 February 2024, 10:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room
Speakers: Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford), Adam Guy (Oxford), Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Organising department: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Organiser contact email address: admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Laura Marcus Workshop
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/laura-marcus-workshop-1-ht24
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Anna Senkiw