Open AccessBehind the Scenes: Children’s Book Publishing Assemblages and Social (Inter)actions
Author(s) -
Kari-Lynn Winters
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1703-2598
DOI - 10.26522/tl.v12i1.453
Subject(s) - semiotics , publishing , negotiation , narrative , picture books , product (mathematics) , assemblage (archaeology) , process (computing) , sociology , visual arts , media studies , computer science , art , linguistics , history , literature , social science , archaeology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , operating system
Authorship is both a product and a process. This article uses an Authorship as Assemblage Model (that I developed—Winters, 2010) to investigate the behind-the-scenes collaborative authorship of the picturebook Jeffrey and Sloth (2007). Specifically, using narrative recount and interview transcripts, I will demonstrate how Ben (illustrator), Maggie (editor), and I (author) assembled modes and semiotic resources, while continually shifting among the social (inter)actions of designing, negotiating, producing, and disseminating as we interpreted and realized multimodal meanings in the book.