Digital authorship : publishing in the attention economy
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Digital authorship : publishing in the attention economy
（Cambridge elements, . Elements in publishing and book culture / edited by Samantha Rayner and Rebecca Lyons）
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : pbk
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The new digital author
- 2. The power of the demotic author
- 3. The rising underclass of the fanfic author
- Discussion and conclusions.
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