Digital Authorship
Subtitle: Publishing in the Attention Economy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781108444484
Subjects: Self-publishing; Authorship
Description: This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media allows writers to disintermediate the established structures of royalty publishing, and to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. This demotic author, one who is 'of the people', often works in genres considered 'popular' or 'derivative'. The demotic author eschews the top-down communication flow of author > text > reader, in favor of publishing platforms that generate attention capital, such as blogs, fanfiction communities, and social media.