In The Story of Your Life, journalist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when social media doesn’t just document our lives, but begins to shape how we understand them? From engagements and birthdays to divorce, travel, parenting and politics, the stories we tell online increasingly influence the way we experience life offline. Drawing on her own incisive reporting, Jezer-Morton explores how social media has quietly rewritten the narratives through which we make sense of ourselves. Why do so many milestones now arrive with an expected script? How has online dating altered the way we imagine relationships? What happens when our homes, holidays and even our values become part of a performance designed for an invisible audience?

Rather than offering a familiar critique of technology, The Story of Your Life is a thoughtful exploration of storytelling itself: the deeply human instinct to shape experience into narrative, and what is gained, or lost, when algorithms begin to influence the stories we tell. Kathryn is in conversation with Ilya Marritz.