This article examines the diary's t...

This article examines the diary's transformation from print tillage practice to online phenomenon, considering the implications of this change for the diary as a literary genre and as life writing. This discussion explores the challenges the online diary delineates to traditional concepts of the genre as private and monologic, investigating the ways in which online diarists attract readers, build communities, and create identities in cyberspace.

CONFESSION

Something about the online journal and its generic cousin the Weblog, or blog makes me distinctly uncomfortable.