Digital Authorship

Publishing in the Attention Economy

R. Lyle Skains

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781108660075
• Thema: Lingue e linguistica
• Thema: Editoria

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.