Open AccessBlogging and blooks: Communal authorship in a contemporary context
Author(s) -
Staci Stutsman
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2012.0413
Subject(s) - publishing , context (archaeology) , sociology , media studies , work (physics) , control (management) , advertising , visual arts , history , art , literature , business , engineering , management , economics , mechanical engineering , archaeology
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