The Author: Andreas Kitzmann is Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Letters at the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University. He received his Ph. D. in comparative literature from McGill University and has written widely on the impact of communications technology on the construction and practice of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions. Among his publications is Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams (Peter Lang, 2004).