Blogging and blooks: Communal authorship in a contemporary context

Authors

  • Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0413

Keywords:

Authorship, Barthes, Fulda, Interactivity, New media, Powell

Abstract

The motivations behind the evolution of the blog to book vary from economic aspirations to a need for further fame to editors seizing an opportunity of publishing an author with a ready-made audience. I argue another motivation may be at work: blogging authors may view the switch into the less fluid medium of the print text as an attempt to reassert authorial control.

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Published

2012-09-15

Issue

Vol. 11 (2012)

Section

Symposium

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