ABSTRACT
This chapter includes the relationship between the life writer and the subject; an example of a life writing project exploring the role eulogy or memorialization plays in how some narrate a life; the treatment of voice in life writing. It addresses the issues related to navigating the use of public and private archives, curating and building open-sourced secondary data collections, encouraging the multimodal nature of visual and interactive life writing spaces. The metaphor of a dreamscape will be used to illustrate the life writers' spirit of adventure. Critical reflexivity is at the heart of all qualitative inquiry projects, including life writing. The chapter frames the methodological exploration using a constructionist epistemology using narrative theory approaches. Collaborative life writing examples include celebrity memoirs that are ghost written and ethnographic autobiographies. Life writing in the digital era offers up new spaces in the public and private sphere for researchers to explore in blogs, personal web pages, and video or audio recordings.
