Digital authorship : publishing in the attention economy / R. Lyle Skains, Bangor University.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
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2019.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-112). |
| ISBN: | 9781108649537 110864953X |
| ISSN: | 2514-8524 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108649537 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |