Between Mark Zuckerberg And Three Mark Zuckerbergs:Biography In The Information Age

Ben Mezrich’s nonfiction novel The Accidental Billionaires:the Founding of Facebook a Tale of Sex Money Genius and Betrayal, David Kirkpatrick’s The Fcebook Effect:The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World and Lin Zhigong(林志共) and Wang Jing(王静)’s Mark Zuckerberg:The Father of Facebook all cut off sections of the Facebook company from the beginning stations of its creation to the presentation company of the Web 2.0 period the process of its development.These three biographies are set in the same historical period, but the image of Mark Zuckerberg each biography portrays is not identical, to the contrary, they are quite different. As the biographee of these three books Mark Zuckerberg differ greatly in his attitudes toward those biography. So as the readers.the advent of the 20th century internet age completely changed the type of biographical literature.More specifically, the creation of the internet media shattered the preexisting form of the biographer-biographee-reader relationship, but also simultaneously reconstructed a new organic mutually-interactive model of the biographer-biographee-reader relationship.By comparing these three biographies, this paper analyzes internet as a medium of change in the literary quality of the traditional biography. This paper reveals the differences between the narrative characteristics of traditional biographies and the author’s narrative techniques in the internet age, especially focusing on the change in interaction between the biographer, bipgraphee and the readers.This paper is divided into five chapters:the first chapter is introduction, including literature review, brief introductions of Mark Zuckberberg and biography literature, as well as purpose and significance of the paper. The second chapter analyzes the transformation of biographer’s role. In the third chapter. It talks about the transformation process of biographee’s textual and historical identity that from symbolization to diversification to fragmentation. The forth chapter is the transformation of reader’s role in the Internet information age. The last chapter is conclusion, which shows that in the Internet information age, the traditional roles of the biographer, biographee and the reader have been upset and remodeled, the result of which is that the writer’s authority has largely been removed, with his or her purpose for writing the biography brought to light. The writers who formerly hid behind their written work are forced to reveal themselves apart from their book. The biographee’s credibility also diminishes in that he or she is not able to control the image that is portrayed of himself or herself; the large amount of information available creates a situation where every reader can personally analyze the biographee apart from information included in the biography, leading to large differences in perceptions about the biographee. Therefore, the internet age boundlessly amplifies the effect of a reader’s personal analysis.