Digital Authorship: Publishing In The Attention Economy (Elements In Publishing And Book Culture)

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
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1108444482
• | ISBN-13: 9781108444484