Digital Authorship - Publishing in the Attention Economy

Klappentext Explores contemporary authorship through three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. Zusammenfassung Explores contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher! hybrid author! and fanfiction writer. Examines how digital and networked media allow writers to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. These writers tend to favor publishing platforms that generate attention capital. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The new digital author; 2. The power of the demotic author; 3. The rising underclass of the fanfic author; Discussion and conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: R. Lyle Skains, R. Lyle (Bangor University) Skains
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108444484
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44448-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements: Publishing and Book; Elements: Publishing and Book; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, Fiction and Related items, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary