Digital Authorship
Publishing in the Attention Economy

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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• Date Published: February 2019
• format: Paperback
• isbn: 9781108444484
• length: 75 pages

• dimensions: 178 x 126 x 8 mm
• weight: 0.3kg
• availability: Available