Media authorship /
Chris, Cynthia,1961-editor of compilation.
Gerstner, David A.,1963-editor of compilation.
"Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production cultures--from visual arts to videogames, from textiles to television--contributors consider authoring practices of artists, designers, do-it-yourselfers, media professionals, scholars, and others. Specifically, they ask: - What constitutes "media" and "authorship" in a technologically converged, globally conglomerated, multiplatform environment for the production and distribution of content? - What can we learn from cinematic and literary models of authorship--and critiques of those models--with regard to authorship not only in television and recorded music, but also interactive media such as videogames and the Internet? - How do we conceive of authorship through practices in which users generate content collaboratively or via appropriation? - What institutional prerogatives and legal debates around intellectual property rights, fair use, and copyright bear on concepts of authorship in "new media"? By addressing these issues, Media Authorship demonstrates that the concept of authorship as formulated in literary and film studies is reinvigorated, contested, remade--even, reauthored--by new practices in the digital media environment"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.
Creativity, copyright, and authorship / Patricia Aufderheide -- Copyright shakedown: the rise and fall of Righthaven / Pam Spaulding and Michelangelo Signorile -- Appropriation art, subjectivism, crisis: the battle for fair uses / Nate Harrison -- Authorship versus ownership: the case of socialist China / Laikwan Pang -- Authoring cloth: the copyright protection of fabric designs in Ghana and the United States / Boatema Boateng -- Sufi homoerotic authorship and its heterosexualization in Pakistan / Usman Shaukat -- Authoring user-generated content / Mark Andrejevic -- Invention, authorship, and massively collaborative media / Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister -- Abductive authorship of the new media artifact / Gregory Turner-Rahman -- Creative authorship: self-actualizing individuals and the self-brand / Sarah Banet-Weiser and Inna Arzumanova -- Authoring the occupation: the mic check, the human microphone, and the loudness of listening / Edward D. Miller -- The myth of democratizing media: software-specific production cultures / Elizabeth Losh -- Global flows of women's cinema: Nadine Labaki and female authorship / Patricia White -- Anxieties of authorship in the colonial archive / Jane Anderson -- Perceptions of place: the nowhere and the somewhere of Al Jazeera / Matthew Tinkcom -- Amateur auteurs? The cultivation of online video partners and creators / Susan Murray -- Publish. Perish? The academic author and open access publishing / Polly Thistlethwaite.
"Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production cultures--from visual arts to videogames, from textiles to television--contributors consider authoring practices of artists, designers, do-it-yourselfers, media professionals, scholars, and others. Specifically, they ask: - What constitutes "media" and "authorship" in a technologically converged, globally conglomerated, multiplatform environment for the production and distribution of content? - What can we learn from cinematic and literary models of authorship--and critiques of those models--with regard to authorship not only in television and recorded music, but also interactive media such as videogames and the Internet? - How do we conceive of authorship through practices in which users generate content collaboratively or via appropriation? - What institutional prerogatives and legal debates around intellectual property rights, fair use, and copyright bear on concepts of authorship in "new media"? By addressing these issues, Media Authorship demonstrates that the concept of authorship as formulated in literary and film studies is reinvigorated, contested, remade--even, reauthored--by new practices in the digital media environment"-- Provided by publisher.
Arts
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.