Autobiography in Real Time: A Genre Analysis of Personal Mommy Blogging
Vol.4,No.2(2010)
blogging; mothering; autobiography; genre
Aimée Morrison
Aimée Morrison, PhD (Alberta), is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She works in cyberculture studies, new media theory and design, and digital humanities. She teaches multimedia design and literacy, history and theory of technology and media, and technology-themed literature. She has published articles on videogame movies of the 1980s, the phenomenon of RateMyProfessors.com, and the politics of the utopian rhetoric of 1990s Internet manifestos, as well as the chapter on blogging in Blackwell's Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007).
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