“Overall this book is a persuasive attempt to integrate online autobiographical texts into mainstream academic research. . . . It is to be hoped that future scholars will continue the fascinating work begun here.”
Trevor Burnard, Sussex University.
Journal of American Studies (2005), 39: 344-345 Cambridge University Press
Excerpt:
“Serfaty’s study is an important contribution to current research into the nature, structure and function of online diaries and blogs. Although the discussion is based mainly within a framework of literary criticism, readers with no literary background are also given a useful overview of the important theories and historical development of the genre.”
Dorota Smyk-Bhattacharjee , The European English Messenger (2005), 14.1: 84-85.
José Angel Garcia Landa. Review of The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs. By Viviane Serfaty. Atlantis 27.1 (June 2005): 117-122.
Abstract:
This is a review of Viviane Serfaty’s landmark study of personal online diaries and personal blogs, with special attention to the micropolitics of self-representation in computer-mediated communication, the transformation of intimacy in the age of Internet, and the American tradition of individuality.
Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1026846
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