Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108444484)

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.

Author: R. Lyle Skains
ISBN-10: 1108444482
ISBN-13: 9781108444484
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2019
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d