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autographics

autographics noun: the creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words.

Noun

autographics (uncountable)

  1. The creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words.
    • This special issue of Biography devoted to exploring the potential of autographics as a concept and a practice is thick with illustrations, for graphic life narrative resists reduction to summary or translation into a single medium, and requires that we pause and explore the sight, the sounds, the...2008 Winter, Gillian Whitlock, Anna Poletti, “Self-Regarding Art”, in Biography, volume 31, number 1
    • There are two entirely new chapters: one on new genres and new subjects, surveying the innovative forms of life writing that have emerged since 2001, and the other on life narrative in exemplary visual and virtual modes, such as autographics and online blogs, that are reshaping the discursive terms...2010, Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, →ISBN, page ix

Examples of autographics in a sentence

  • In what follows, I look at autographics, interfaces, and avatar autobiography as three forms of virtualized life narrative existing today.2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 515:
  • Graphic memoirs or “autographics” are a growing focus of current scholarship.2014, Lan Dong, Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives, →ISBN:

Origin of autographics

Coined by Gillian Whitlock from auto- + graphics

Questions about autographics

What does autographics mean?
Autographics means the creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words.
How do you use autographics in a sentence?
In what follows, I look at autographics, interfaces, and avatar autobiography as three forms of virtualized life narrative existing today.
What part of speech is autographics?
Autographics is a noun.

Words near autographics in the dictionary

  1. autographer
  2. autographers
  3. autographic
  4. autographical
  5. autographically
  6. autographics
  7. autographies
  8. autographing
  9. autographings
  10. autographise
  11. autographised

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: autographics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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