The Networked Author: Looking at Contemporary Authorship Through Postdigital Comics

This article investigates contemporary authorship in the (global) English-speaking context, focusing on the shared creative practices of postdigital comics – those that bear the inscription of digital technologies and practices in unprecedented or renewed ways. In doing so, it proposes an original f...

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Main Author: Giorgio Busi Rizzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of English Studies 2024-10-01
Series:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://anglica-journal.com/resources/html/article/details?id=625805
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Summary:This article investigates contemporary authorship in the (global) English-speaking context, focusing on the shared creative practices of postdigital comics – those that bear the inscription of digital technologies and practices in unprecedented or renewed ways. In doing so, it proposes an original framework to discuss how the digital has brought forward novel network dynamics of comics creation beyond the single author, arguing for the identification, within this networked authorship, of (a) renewed forms and practices of ‘collective authorship,’ and (b) new types of ‘distributed authorship.’ In a conceptual reframing of this landscape, the article divides the former into ‘collaborative’ or ‘participatory’ authorship, and the latter into ‘algorithmic’ and ‘rhizomatic’ authorship, surveying and discussing their configurations.
ISSN:0860-5734
2957-0905