Ego-Media (2014-2019) studied the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It analysed how autobiographical forms and discursive practices were being transformed at the frontier of technological change; and considered the implications of the new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. Based in the interdisciplinary Centre for Life-Writing Research in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London, it combined a humanistic, life-writing theory approach with interdisciplinary methodologies, in collaboration with researchers from English, Sociolinguistics, Psychiatry, Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, and others.

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Professor Max Saunders was Ego Media's Principal Investigator. He was joined by Professor Clare Brant, who with Max co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research,  socio-linguist Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Professor Leone Ridsdale as Co-Investigators.