Les fonctions de l’écrit intime dans la constitution du héros : Jackson Teller, volonté intime et destin tragique by Vanessa Loubet-Poëtte

“…Moreover, thanks to the diarists, a dead father and his living son, both intimate writers, Sons of Anarchy considers the acts of reading and writing as efficient means for its plot. …”
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From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…These films mark a generation of travel diarists in search of the dream and anti-travel. The return to the wild, as a cultural confrontation, formative journey and self-transcendence, is said to shape the travel diary genre, which takes the form of either a piece of self writing or an autobiographical film (sometimes called a biopic) on the experience of travelling. …”
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Holding Our Nerves—Experiments in Dispersed Collective Silence, Waking Sleep and Autotheoretical Confession by Grace Denton

“…Using transcripts of the show, diaristic writing, and reflections on art history and my past works, this article explores the often-fraught relationships between autotheory, visual art, neurodivergence, and practice-based research.…”
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Housework now takes much less time: 85 years of US rural women’s time use by Gershuny, J, Harms, T

“…Names and addresses attached to the original diaries allow the identification of >93% of the USDA diarists in one or both of the 1920 and 1930 US Federal Censuses. …”

Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting by Katrin Tiidenberg

“…The technologies of the self activated through diaristic blogging and selfie sharing, along with the empowerment from interactions with peers take bloggers on a path of sexual awakening and reintroduce them to their own bodies. …”
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Silence, dissent, and affective relations in the juvenile diaries of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen (1861–1895) by Gleadle, K

“…Exploring juvenile life writing, it will be suggested, requires a new archival hermeneutics in which the meanings of archives and their construction can reveal hidden dynamics as well as pointing to the cultural agency of young diarists.…”

The perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced people by Taylor, J, Pooley, S, Canning, R, O'Higgins, A, Bowes, L

“…A minority of respondents referred to their care status in their diaries. Most diarists presented their experiences as being common to other, non-care-experienced, people. …”

The Active Follower: What Young Voters Look for in Political Leaders and Parties by Lucia Botindari, Stephen D. Reicher

“…The first part, an in-depth thematic investigation of two diaries, shows that the diarists do not passively accept the constructions used by politicians, but rather deliberate both over their own identities and the way that politicians relate to these identities. …”
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Attaching metabolic expenditures to standard occupational classification systems: perspectives from time-use research. by Deyaert, J, Harms, T, Weenas, D, Gershuny, J, Glorieux, I

“…Time-use data can be used to study PAEE by assigning MET values to daily activities using the Ainsworth Compendium of Physical Activities. Although most diarists record their daily activities accurately and in detail, they are only required to record their paid working hours, not the job-specific tasks they undertake. …”

Euroopa-ihalusest taasiseseisvusperioodi autobiograafiates / European Identifications in Post-Soviet Estonian Life Writing by Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

“…In Jaan Kaplinski’s confessional epistolary address to the author’s Polish father who died in the Gulag shortly after the birth of his son and in Õnnepalu’s semi-fictional diaristic text emerging from an obligation to write during a stay in a writers’ residence in Belgium in Vollezele, the question of subjectivity and (European) identity do not unravel primarily via an emphasis on the ruptures of the period of occupation. …”
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