Abstract
From Wiki Leaks, whistleblowers, documentary exposes, and personal testimonies, to reality television, consumer databases, and social media, we are all increasingly caught up in a ‘confessional mode’ where going public is the rule more than the exception. The confessional mode appears in academic writing across the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts, marking a shift towards self-reflexivity, personal scholarship, and auto-ethnography. For growing numbers of us, Facebook, Linked-in, and FaceTime encourage us to connect, network, post, blog, text, and tweet even the most intimate details of our personal lives. Meanwhile, this information — about our ‘likes,’ personal consumption habits, and moment-to-moment movement — is ‘mined’ and sold from databases linked to our social media, our cell phones, and our bank cards.
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